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An optimal scaling scheme for DCO-OFDM based visible light communications

An optimal scaling scheme for DCO-OFDM based visible light communications
An optimal scaling scheme for DCO-OFDM based visible light communications
DC-biased optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) is widely used in visible light communication (VLC) systems to provide high data rate transmission. As intensity modulation with direct detection (IM/DD) is employed to modulate the OFDM signal, scale up the amplitude of the signal can increase the effective transmitted electrical power whereas more signals are likely to be clipped due to the limited dynamic range of LEDs, resulting in severe clipping distortion. Thus, it is crucial to scale the signal to find a tradeoff between the effective electrical power and the clipping distortion. In this paper, an optimal scaling scheme is proposed to maximize the received signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio (SNDR) with the constraint of the radiated optical power in a practical scenario where DC bias is fixed for a desired dimming level. Simulation results show that the system with the optimal scaling factor outperforms that with fixed scaling factor under different equivalent noise power in terms of the bit error ratio (BER) performance.
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Jiang, Rui, Wang, Qi, Wang, Fang, Dai, Linglong and Wang, Zhaocheng (2015) An optimal scaling scheme for DCO-OFDM based visible light communications. Optics Communications, 356, 136-140. (doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2015.07.053).

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Abstract

DC-biased optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) is widely used in visible light communication (VLC) systems to provide high data rate transmission. As intensity modulation with direct detection (IM/DD) is employed to modulate the OFDM signal, scale up the amplitude of the signal can increase the effective transmitted electrical power whereas more signals are likely to be clipped due to the limited dynamic range of LEDs, resulting in severe clipping distortion. Thus, it is crucial to scale the signal to find a tradeoff between the effective electrical power and the clipping distortion. In this paper, an optimal scaling scheme is proposed to maximize the received signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio (SNDR) with the constraint of the radiated optical power in a practical scenario where DC bias is fixed for a desired dimming level. Simulation results show that the system with the optimal scaling factor outperforms that with fixed scaling factor under different equivalent noise power in terms of the bit error ratio (BER) performance.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 July 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 July 2015
Published date: 1 December 2015
Organisations: Southampton Wireless Group

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Local EPrints ID: 400617
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/400617
ISSN: 0030-4018
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Author: Rui Jiang
Author: Qi Wang
Author: Fang Wang
Author: Linglong Dai
Author: Zhaocheng Wang

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