Optical polar based MIMO‐OFDM with fully generalised index‐spatial LED modulation

Abstract

A novel efficient visible light communication (VLC) modulation technique teams as polar fully generalised index-spatial (PFGIS) modulation light emitting diode (LED) for the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) optical polar based OFDM (MIMO-POFDM) system is proposed here. The PFGIS is a spectrally efficient (SE) modulation scheme which introduces an elegant solution to tackle the OFDM signal shaping problem, moreover, the PFGIS improves the optical MIMO-OFDM system SE. In the PFGIS, the Cartesian complex OFDM signal is transformed to polar OFDM (POFDM). Then, the indices of the active LEDs are exploited to convey the POFDM signal components. While, the spatial position of the LEDs are exploited as a spatial modulation (SM). In the SM, the LEDs indices used for data transmission are changed from the case of two LEDs are selected to case where all/multiple LEDs are selected. Subsequently, the proposed system achievable data rate is linearly increased with the LEDs number. The PFGIS gives higher SE even with a lower LEDs number compared with the recently OFDM optical LED index modulation techniques. Simulation results confirm the efficiency of the proposed PFGIS in improving both the achievable data rate and the bit error rate compared with the up-to-date LED index modulation OFDM schemes.