Dimming control in visible light communication using RPO-OFDM and concatenated RS-CC

Increasing wireless data traffic is creating pressure on the conventional dwindling radio frequency spectrum. A new and reliable communication medium becomes a necessity. Visible Light Communication (VLC), a subset of optical wireless communication uses the visible light spectrum between 400 and 800 THz as a medium for communication. VLC utilizes the illumination of LED to establish a communication medium. The research focused on achieving a successful VLC communication link at low intensities of light without affecting the speed, accuracy and efficiency of VLC. The achievement of the paper was to devise a method to reduce the LED brightness, reducing energy consumption and most importantly maintain a reliable, efficient and successful VLC communication link at low intensities of LED. The research comprises of a Reverse Polarity Optical-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (RPO-OFDM) modulator, a Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoder block that uses concatenated Reed Solomon - Convolutional Coding, a digital PWM dimming control circuit, an RPO-OFDM demodulator and a FEC decoder. The decoding is performed using the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm and the Viterbi algorithm. Extensive research on various modulation schemes, coding and error correction techniques along with various driver circuit design for dimming control in VLC were thoroughly investigated to conclude the best reliable solution for dimming control in VLC

Pré-filtragem no espaço-frequência para o sistema MC-CDMA

Doutoramento em Engenharia ElectrotécnicaO trabalho desta tese enquadra-se na área de comunicações móveis, mais especificamente em sistemas de portadora múltipla. O MC-CDMA, que combina a modulação OFDM com o espalhamento na frequência, é um dos candidatos mais promissores para a interface-ar dos futuros sistemas de comunicações móveis – 4G. O objectivo desta tese é propor e avaliar técnicas de pré-filtragem e de codificação, projectadas no espaço-frequência/tempo para o sistema MC-CDMA, no sentido descendente (Downlink). Inicialmente, são discutidos conceitos teóricos fundamentais para se compreender o mecanismo físico de propagação inerente às comunicações móveis, apresentando-se depois vários sistemas de portadora múltipla. É dada especial atenção ao sistema convencional MC-CDMA. Este sistema é importante porque serve de referência ao desempenho obtido com as técnicas de transmissão propostas nesta tese. Estas técnicas são projectadas tendo em conta as restrições em termos de complexidade do terminal móvel. Assim, a estação base é equipada com um agregado de antenas e o terminal móvel com uma antena, sendo neste último, apenas implementadas técnicas de detecção mono-utilizador. Assumindo, que a estação base conhece a resposta do canal antes da transmissão, são propostas diferentes estratégias de transmissão: os filtros são projectados no espaço-frequência para o sistema MC-CDMA combinados com ou sem equalização no terminal móvel; e o filtro é projectado apenas na frequência para o sistema MC-CDMA com codificação no espaço-frequência/tempo. O algoritmo é baseado na minimização da potência transmitida sujeita à total eliminação da interferência de acesso múltiplo e das distorções provocadas pelo canal rádio móvel. Todos os esquemas propostos são validados e comparados, através de simulações, em cenários típicos de interiores e exteriores. Como principal conclusão desta tese, destaca-se a significativa melhoria de desempenho obtido com estas técnicas, relativamente ao sistema convencional MC-CDMA. Além disso, este desempenho é conseguido com um terminal móvel de reduzida complexidade. Assim, estas técnicas permitem aumentar significativamente a capacidade do sistema e, simultaneamente, transferir grande parte da complexidade do terminal móvel para a estação base.The scope of this thesis targets multi-carrier modulation techniques for mobile radio communications system. MC-CDMA combining multi-carrier modulation and spreading in the frequency domain is widely viewed as a promising candidate for 4G air interfaces. The aim of this thesis is to propose and evaluate pre-filtering and coding techniques designed in space and frequency/time for the downlink MC-CDMA system. Initially, the fundamental propagation mechanisms inherent to mobile radio communications are discussed and then several multi-carrier schemes are presented. Furthermore, special attention is given to the conventional MCCDMA system, since it can be used as the reference benchmark performance for the advanced transmission techniques proposed in this thesis. These transmission schemes are designed taking into account the complexity constraints at the mobile terminal. Hence, the basestation is equipped with an antenna array and the mobile terminal comprises a single antenna and single user detection scheme. Based on the assumption that the basestation has prior channel knowledge, different transmission strategies are proposed: spacefrequency pre-filtering schemes combined with single user equalizers at the MT for the MC-CDMA system; frequency pre-filtering scheme for spacefrequency/ time coding MC-CDMA system. The algorithm is based on the minimization of the transmitted power subject to MAI and channel distortion elimination. The proposed pre-filtering schemes are assessed and compared through simulations in typical indoor and pedestrian scenarios. This work concluded that with the proposed pre-filtering schemes, we obtain a considerable performance improvement in typical indoor and outdoor scenarios with a low complexity mobile terminal design and allow a transfer of implementation complexity from the mobile to the basestation

Exposing a waveform interface to the wireless channel for scalable video broadcast

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167).Video broadcast and mobile video challenge the conventional wireless design. In broadcast and mobile scenarios the bit-rate supported by the channel differs across receivers and varies quickly over time. The conventional design however forces the source to pick a single bit-rate and degrades sharply when the channel cannot support it. This thesis presents SoftCast, a clean-slate design for wireless video where the source transmits one video stream that each receiver decodes to a video quality commensurate with its specific instantaneous channel quality. To do so, SoftCast ensures the samples of the digital video signal transmitted on the channel are linearly related to the pixels' luminance. Thus, when channel noise perturbs the transmitted signal samples, the perturbation naturally translates into approximation in the original video pixels. Hence, a receiver with a good channel (low noise) obtains a high fidelity video, and a receiver with a bad channel (high noise) obtains a low fidelity video. SoftCast's linear design in essence resembles the traditional analog approach to communication, which was abandoned in most major communication systems, as it does not enjoy the theoretical opimality of the digital separate design in point-topoint channels nor its effectiveness at compressing the source data. In this thesis, I show that in combination with decorrelating transforms common to modern digital video compression, the analog approach can achieve performance competitive with the prevalent digital design for a wide variety of practical point-to-point scenarios, and outperforms it in the broadcast and mobile scenarios. Since the conventional bit-pipe interface of the wireless physical layer (PHY) forces the separation of source and channel coding, to realize SoftCast, architectural changes to the wireless PHY are necessary. This thesis discusses the design of RawPHY, a reorganization of the PHY which exposes a waveform interface to the channel while shielding the designers of the higher layers from much of the perplexity of the wireless channel. I implement SoftCast and RawPHY using the GNURadio software and the USRP platform. Results from a 20-node testbed show that SoftCast improves the average video quality (i.e., PSNR) across diverse broadcast receivers in our testbed by up to 5.5 dB in comparison to conventional single- or multi-layer video. Even for a single receiver, it eliminates video glitches caused by mobility and increases robustness to packet loss by an order of magnitude.by Szymon Kazimierz Jakubczak.Ph.D

Interleaved Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing System

A new orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system for wireless communications over frequency selective fading channels is presented. The proposed interleaved orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (IOFDM) system promises higher code rate as compared to the conventional OFDM system without bandwidth expansion and with very slight increase in computational complexity. Simulation results verify that the performance, in terms of the bit error rate, of the proposed IOFDM system is very close to the conventional OFDM system

Interleaved Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (IOFDM) System

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, for every block of K data samples, an overhead of L samples of cyclic prefix (CP) or zero padding (ZP) is added to combat frequency selective channels. The code rate, which is defined as the ratio K/(K + L), is a measure of the efficiency of transmitting user information. In this paper, a new system is proposed to increase the code rate without increasing the number of subcarriers and without increasing the bandwidth. The proposed system considers appending the L zeros (ZP) once for every P blocks of data samples, which would increase the code rate to PK/(PK + L). It is assumed that the channel is not varying over the transmission of P consecutive data blocks. In order to recover the P data blocks in a computationally efficient manner, an interleaving scheme is proposed, and the proposed system is called the interleaved OFDM (IOFDM) system. Various issues such as computational complexity, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), and the effect of synchronization errors on the performance of the IOFDM system are also presented. Based on a numerical simulation study, the average bit-error-rate (BER) performance of the IOFDM system is shown to be very close to that of the OFDM system for a moderate increase in computational complexity and delay

Alternative Interleaving Schemes for Interleaved Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

We propose a matrix model for the interleaved orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system (IOFDM) [3], [4] [5]. Using this model, we show that the interleaving scheme originally proposed for IOFDM is not unique in terms of preserving system complexity. We further show that a class of interleaving matrices yields IOFDM systems with the same complexity as the original IOFDM system. Furthermore, we show that the interleaving scheme does not affect the BER performance of the system as long as the interleaving matrix is unitary

Alternative Interleaving Schemes for Interleaved Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

We propose a matrix model for the interleaved orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system (IOFDM) [3], [4] [5]. Using this model, we show that the interleaving scheme originally proposed for IOFDM is not unique in terms of preserving system complexity. We further show that a class of interleaving matrices yields IOFDM systems with the same complexity as the original IOFDM system. Furthermore, we show that the interleaving scheme does not affect the BER performance of the system as long as the interleaving matrix is unitary