A novel optical index modulation aided DCO-OFDM scheme for VLC systems

Haodong Li, Jian Sun, Wensheng Zhang*, Cheng-Xiang Wang

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel optical index modulation (OIM) aided direct-current (DC) biased optical OFDM (OIM-DCO-OFDM) scheme for visible light communication (VLC) systems is proposed. Different with traditional index modulation schemes, the proposed OIM-DCO-OFDM scheme uses index bits to determine which subcarrier transmit original signals and which subcarrier transmit conjugate signals. The constellation of traditional phase-shift keying (PSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is symmetrical about the real axis. It means that we cannot distinguish the original signals and conjugate signals. In order to recover index bits at the receiver, we propose a unipolar pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) scheme for the modulation of constellation bits, and design a zero-forcing (ZF) based detector. Compared with dual-mode index modulation aided DCO-OFDM (DM-DCO-OFDM) scheme, the proposed scheme has 1 dB and 2 dB performance gain at the bit error rate (BER) level of 10- 4 when the spectral efficiency is 1.21 bits/s/Hz and 2.18 bits/s/Hz, respectively. The proposed OIM-DCO-OFDM scheme can achieve 80% spectral efficiency improvement than the DM-DCO-OFDM scheme at the modulation order of M= 4.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWireless Internet
Subtitle of host publication10th International Conference
EditorsCheng Li, Shiwen Mao
PublisherSpringer
Pages328-337
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9783319908021
ISBN (Print)9783319908014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 May 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
PublisherSpringer
Volume230
ISSN (Print)1867-8211
ISSN (Electronic)1867-822X

Keywords

  • DC-biased optical OFDM
  • Optical index modulation
  • PAM
  • Visible light communication

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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