Kernel Recursive Maximum Versoria Criterion Based Post-Distorter for VLC Using Kernel-Width Sampling

Abstract

Visible light communication (VLC) has emerged as a potential candidate for next generation wireless communication systems. However, nonlinear characteristics of light emitting diode (LED), user-mobility, and DC-bias fluctuations are the major factors that limit the throughput of a VLC link, and makes the overall additive distortion as non-Gaussian distributed. To mitigate this non-Gaussian noise processes encountered in VLC systems due to LED nonlinearity, and user-mobility, recently a random Fourier features (RFF) based kernel recursive maximum Versoria criterion (KRMVC) based post-distortion algorithm is proposed, which delivers better performance as compared to the classical polynomial series, and kernel recursive least squares (KRLS) algorithms due to the incorporation of higher order statistics of error. However, the performance of RFF-KRMVC algorithm is sensitive to the choice of kernel-width, and results in approximation errors due to imperfect choice of kernel-width. This paper proposes a novel RFF-KRMVC algorithm using a kernel-width sampling (KWS) technique called as RFF-KWS-KRMVC, which implements the post-distortion under a hyperparameter-free finite memory budget. Furthermore, analytical expressions for mean square error, and error rate are quantified for the proposed RFF-KWS-KRMVC post-distorter, and corroborated by Monte-Carlo simulations performed over standard VLC channel models.