Abstract

Generalized light emitting diode (LED) index modulation (GLIM) has been proposed as an effective multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme for visible light communications (VLC) systems. In this letter, we propose a magnitude and wrap-phase OFDM (MW-OFDM) scheme for MIMO VLC systems. The proposed MW-OFDM system relies on the conversion of complex signals into polar form with the magnitudes and wrap-phases to decrease the restriction on the number of LEDs compared to the conventional GLIM-OFDM. Furthermore, maximum likelihood and best linear unbiased estimators of the proposed scheme are derived. The proposed MW-OFDM scheme improves the average bit error rate and provides a significant reduction in the decoding complexity, compared to the GLIM-OFDM. Moreover, a half number of LEDs are required for the proposed scheme to deliver the same spectral efficiency in a comparison with the GLIM-OFDM. Numerical results are presented over MIMO VLC channels to elaborate the superiority of our proposed scheme.

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