77 research outputs found
Precoded Chebyshev-NLMS based pre-distorter for nonlinear LED compensation in NOMA-VLC
Visible light communication (VLC) is one of the main technologies driving the
future 5G communication systems due to its ability to support high data rates
with low power consumption, thereby facilitating high speed green
communications. To further increase the capacity of VLC systems, a technique
called non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been suggested to cater to
increasing demand for bandwidth, whereby users' signals are superimposed prior
to transmission and detected at each user equipment using successive
interference cancellation (SIC). Some recent results on NOMA exist which
greatly enhance the achievable capacity as compared to orthogonal multiple
access techniques. However, one of the performance-limiting factors affecting
VLC systems is the nonlinear characteristics of a light emitting diode (LED).
This paper considers the nonlinear LED characteristics in the design of
pre-distorter for cognitive radio inspired NOMA in VLC, and proposes singular
value decomposition based Chebyshev precoding to improve performance of
nonlinear multiple-input multiple output NOMA-VLC. A novel and generalized
power allocation strategy is also derived in this work, which is valid even in
scenarios when users experience similar channels. Additionally, in this work,
analytical upper bounds for the bit error rate of the proposed detector are
derived for square -quadrature amplitude modulation.Comment: R. Mitra and V. Bhatia are with Indian Institute of Technology
Indore, Indore-453552, India, Email:[email protected],
[email protected]. This work was submitted to IEEE Transactions on
Communications on October 26, 2016, decisioned on March 3, 2017, and revised
on April 25, 2017, and is currently under review in IEEE Transactions on
Communication
The Spatial Dimming Scheme for the MU-MIMO-OFDM VLC System
Multiuser visible light communication (MU-VLC) systems utilizing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) are gaining increased attentions recently. Visible light communication (VLC) links are expected to work under different illumination conditions and, thus, the need for dimming control mechanisms. However, the traditional analog- and digital-based dimming schemes have adverse effects on the data communications performance, such as clipping distortion and the variation of the duty cycle. In this paper, spatial dimming schemes based on the zero-forcing and the minimum mean-squared error precoding schemes are proposed for direct-current biased optical OFDM based indoor MU-MIMO VLC system, and the bipolar optical OFDM signal is biased by a fixed dc level. Transmit antenna selection algorithms are designed for the optimum working light emitting diodes (LEDs) subset at each dimming level. Owing to the simultaneously exploration of the selection diversity of LEDs-based lights and the channel state information, the proposed spatial dimming schemes outperform the traditional dimming schemes, which is also verified by simulation results. Thus, the proposed schemes are shown to have a great potential to be applied in practical MU-MIMO-OFDM VLC systems
Optical Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Visible Light Communication
The proliferation of mobile Internet and connected devices, offering a
variety of services at different levels of performance, represents a major
challenge for the fifth generation wireless networks and beyond. This requires
a paradigm shift towards the development of key enabling techniques for the
next generation wireless networks. In this respect, visible light communication
(VLC) has recently emerged as a new communication paradigm that is capable of
providing ubiquitous connectivity by complementing radio frequency
communications. One of the main challenges of VLC systems, however, is the low
modulation bandwidth of the light-emitting-diodes, which is in the megahertz
range. This article presents a promising technology, referred to as "optical-
non-orthogonal multiple access (O-NOMA)", which is envisioned to address the
key challenges in the next generation of wireless networks. We provide a
detailed overview and analysis of the state-of-the-art integration of O-NOMA in
VLC networks. Furthermore, we provide insights on the potential opportunities
and challenges as well as some open research problems that are envisioned to
pave the way for the future design and implementation of O-NOMA in VLC systems
A Public Information Precoding for MIMO Visible Light Communication System Based on Manifold Optimization
Visible light communication (VLC) is an attractive subset of optical
communication that provides a high data rate in the access layer of the
network. The combination of multiple inputmultiple output (MIMO) with a VLC
system leads to a higher speed of data transmission named as MIMO-VLC system.
In multi-user (MU) MIMO-VLC, a LED array transmits signals for users. These
signals are categorized as signals of private information for each user and
signals of public information for all users. The main idea of this paper is to
design an omnidirectional precoding to transmit the signals of public
information in the MUMIMO-VLC network. To this end, we propose to maximize the
achievable rate which leads to maximizing the received mean power at the
possible location of the users. Besides maximizing the achievable rate, we
consider equal mean transmission power constraint in all LEDs to achieve higher
power efficiency of the power amplifiers used in the LED array. Based on this
we formulate an optimization problem in which the constraint is in the form of
a manifold and utilize a gradient method projected on the manifold to solve the
problem. Simulation results indicate that the proposed omnidirectional
precoding can achieve superior received mean power and bit error rate with
respect to the classical form without precoding utilization.Comment: This paper has been submitted to an IEEE Journa
Physical Layer Security for Visible Light Communication Systems:A Survey
Due to the dramatic increase in high data rate services and in order to meet
the demands of the fifth-generation (5G) networks, researchers from both
academia and industry are exploring advanced transmission techniques, new
network architectures and new frequency spectrum such as the visible light
spectra. Visible light communication (VLC) particularly is an emerging
technology that has been introduced as a promising solution for 5G and beyond.
Although VLC systems are more immune against interference and less susceptible
to security vulnerabilities since light does not penetrate through walls,
security issues arise naturally in VLC channels due to their open and
broadcasting nature, compared to fiber-optic systems. In addition, since VLC is
considered to be an enabling technology for 5G, and security is one of the 5G
fundamental requirements, security issues should be carefully addressed and
resolved in the VLC context. On the other hand, due to the success of physical
layer security (PLS) in improving the security of radio-frequency (RF) wireless
networks, extending such PLS techniques to VLC systems has been of great
interest. Only two survey papers on security in VLC have been published in the
literature. However, a comparative and unified survey on PLS for VLC from
information theoretic and signal processing point of views is still missing.
This paper covers almost all aspects of PLS for VLC, including different
channel models, input distributions, network configurations,
precoding/signaling strategies, and secrecy capacity and information rates.
Furthermore, we propose a number of timely and open research directions for
PLS-VLC systems, including the application of measurement-based indoor and
outdoor channel models, incorporating user mobility and device orientation into
the channel model, and combining VLC and RF systems to realize the potential of
such technologies
Optical Asymmetric Modulation for VLC Systems
The explosive growth of connected devices and the increasing number of broadband users have led to an unprecedented growth in traffic demand. To this effect, the next generation wireless systems are envisioned to meet this growth and offer a potential data rate of 10 Gbps or more. In this context, an attractive solution to the current spectrum crunch issue is to exploit the visible light spectrum for the realization of high-speed commutation systems. However, this requires solutions to certain challenges relating to visible light communications (VLC), such as the stringent requirements of VLC-based intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD), which require signals to be real and unipolar. The present work proposes a novel power-domain multiplexing based optical asymmetric modulation (OAM) scheme for indoor VLC systems, which is particularly adapted to transmit high-order modulation signals using linear real and unipolar constellations that fit into the restrictions of IM/DD systems. It is shown that the proposed scheme provides improved system performance that outperforms alternative modulation schemes, at no extra complexity
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