Abstract
An iterative pairwise maximum likelihood (ML) receiver is proposed for asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM) in visible light communications (VLC). With the aid of the pairwise ML detection, half of the received ACO-OFDM samples are forced to zero in time domain. However, when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is low, the pairwise ML detection may cause misjudgment. With the iterative pairwise ML detection, the ACO-OFDM symbols are detected in frequency domain and the SNR gain of 3 dB could be available. Simulation results show that the pairwise ML receiver without iteration provides the SNR improvement of 1.5~2.7 dB for 7% forward error correction (FEC) limit. The proposed iterative receiver gives a SNR gain of 2.6~2.9 dB with 7% FEC limit.
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