VLC-OFDM System Research Articles

High-Dimensional Radial Basis Function Extension Interpolation Nonlinear Post-Distorter in Visible Light Communication Systems

The nonlinearity induced by light-emitting diode (LED) affects the normal transmission and reception, which significantly limits the performance of visible light communication (VLC) system. To address the problem induced by the nonlinearity of LED, a post-distorter for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based VLC is proposed in this paper. Radial basis function (RBF) interpolation, known as an excellent function approximation method, is investigated to implement the nonlinearity mitigations. To further remove the memory effect of LED, which could not be ignored, we propose to extend RBF to a high-dimensional interpolation so that it can eliminate both nonlinearity and memory effect simultaneously. The performance of the proposed RBF extension interpolation is verified by numerical simulations, and a better performance in suppressing nonlinearity is obtained in VLC-OFDM systems as compared with the frequency domain nonlinear compensation method. A signal-to-noise ratio gain of 2dB in terms of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${{{E}_b} \mathord{/ {\vphantom {{{E}_b} {{N}_0}}} } {{N}_0}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> can be obtained when bit error rate is about 6*10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">−7</sup> at 6dB power back-off (PBO), while 6dB gain can be achieved when BER is 2*10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">−4</sup> at 4dB PBO.

The Performance Improvement of VLC-OFDM System Based on Reservoir Computing

Nonlinear effects have been restricting the development of high-speed visible light communication (VLC) systems. Neural network (NN) has become an effective means to alleviate the nonlinearity of a VLC system due to its powerful ability to fit complicated functions. However, the complex training process of traditional NN limits its application in high-speed VLC. Without performance penalty, reservoir computing (RC) simplifies the training process of NN by training only part of the network connection weights, and has become an alternative scheme to NN. For the indoor visible light orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (VLC-OFDM) system, this paper studies the signal recovery effect of the pilot-assisted reservoir computing (PA-RC) frequency domain equalization algorithm. The pilot information is added to the feature engineering of RC to improve the accuracy of channel estimation by traditional least squares (LS) algorithm. The performance of 64 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal under different transmission rates and peak to peak voltage (Vpp) conditions is demonstrated in the experiments. Compared with the traditional frequency domain equalization algorithms, PA-RC can further expand the Vpp range that meets the 7% hard-decision forward error correction (FEC) limit of 3.8 × 10−3. At the rate of 240 Mbps, the BER of the system is reduced by about 90%, and the utilization rate of the available frequency band of the system reaches 100%. The results show that PA-RC can effectively improve the transmission performance of VLC system well, and has strong generalization ability.

Combined Envelope Scaling with Modified SLM Method for PAPR Reduction in OFDM-Based VLC Systems

Abstract Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing technique (OFDM) has been adopted widely as a modulation technique for radio frequency (RF) and optical communication systems such as visible-light communication (VLC) due to its high spectral efficiency and low-complexity implementation. VLC-OFDM is recommended in 5 G mobile communication. However, VLC-OFDM suffer from the high peak to-average power ratio (PAPR). In this paper, a modified selective mapping (MSLM) method is applied to the proposed system followed by a new envelope scaling process for further reductions in PAPR of VLC-OFDM system. Simulation results show that the proposed method reduces the PAPR by about 6.8 and 1.7 dB comparing with the original signal and the traditional SLM with a number of rotation vector U = 8, respectively.

A PAPR reduction scheme combining superimposed O-OFDM and [formula omitted]-law mapping for VLC-OFDM systems

Due to the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals, the inherent nonlinearity of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is a challenge for optical OFDM (O-OFDM) schemes in visible light communication (VLC) systems. In order to reduce PAPR to mitigate the effects of the nonlinearity of LEDs, and avoid the asymmetric clipping interference in the conventional hybrid O-OFDM schemes, a novel superimposed O-OFDM scheme is proposed in this paper, which reduce the PAPR by combining the μ-law mapping and the superposition modulation. Moreover, at the transmitter, the hybrid O-OFDM components are superimposed in an interference-free way, the receiver does not require the operation of interference cancellation, and the symbols of each branch can be demodulated independently. Simulation results verify that the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the PAPR. At the same time, the comprehensive performance of the proposed scheme outperforms other competing schemes under the constraints of the nonlinearity and limited dynamic range of LEDs.

PAPR Reduction in OFDM-based Visible Light Communication Systems Using a Combination of Novel Peak-value Feedback Algorithm and Genetic Algorithm

We propose an enhanced partial transmit sequence technique based on novel peak-value feedback algorithm and genetic algorithm (GAPFA-PTS) to reduce peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals in visible light communication (VLC) systems(VLC-OFDM). To demonstrate the advantages of our proposed algorithm, we analyze the flow of proposed technique and compare the performances with other techniques through MATLAB simulation. The results show that GAPFA-PTS technique achieves a significant improvement in PAPR reduction while maintaining low bit error rate (BER) and low complexity in VLC-OFDM systems.

PAPR Reduction in VLC-OFDM System Using a Combination of Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm and Hill-Climbing Algorithm

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technique has been widely used in visible light communications (VLC) system (VLC-OFDM). To minimize the performance degradation of VLC-OFDM system caused by high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), we propose a SFLAHC-PTS technique to reduce the PAPR of signal in this paper. The proposed SFLAHC-PTS is an improved PTS technique which takes advantages of shuffled frog leaping algorithm and hill-climbing algorithm to optimize conventional PTS technique, reducing the computational complexity of conventional PTS technique. We compare SFLAHC-PTS technique with other PTS techniques on the CCDF performance, as well as computational amount to analyze the superiority of SFLAHC-PTS technique. The results show that the proposed technique can greatly reduce the computational load of conventional PTS technique and has better performance in reducing PAPR than GA-PTS, SFLA-PTS technique.

DFT-spread combined with clipping method to reduce the PAPR in VLC-OFDM system

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is an attractive technique to realize high data rate in light emitting diodes (LEDs)-based visible light communication (VLC). However, high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of OFDM makes VLC-OFDM very sensitive to the nonlinearity of LEDs. In this paper, the discrete Fourier transform-spread (DFT-spread) combined with clipping method is proposed to reduce the PAPR of OFDM signal in VLC system. Combining simulation with experiment, a performance comparison is made among conventional OFDM, DFT-spread-OFDM, and clipped DFT-spread-OFDM with different clipping ratios (CRs) in a single LED-based VLC system. The experimental results show that the proposed clipped DFT-spread-OFDM method can effectively improve the system performance compared with the other two methods. At the optimum signal peak-to-peak (PTP) value, by using the clipped DFT-spread-OFDM scheme with CR at 8 dB, the bit error rate (BER) of the system can be reduced from 0.003 7 to 0.000 287.1

PAPR Reduction in VLC-OFDM System using CPM Combined with PTS Method

PAPR Reduction in VLC-OFDM System using CPM Combined with PTS Method

Bandwidth Allocation Under Multi-Level Service Guarantees of Downlink in the VLC-OFDM System

In this paper, we explore a low-complex bandwidth allocation (BA) scheme with multi-level service guarantees in VLC-OFDM systems. Effective capacity theory, which evaluates wireless channel capacity from a novel view, is utilized to model the system capacity under delay QoS constraints of the link layer. Since intensity modulation of light is used in the system, problems caused by frequency selectivity can be neglected. Then, the BA problem can be formulated as an integer programming problem and it is further relaxed and transformed into a concave one. Lagrangian formulation is used to reformulate the concave problem. Considering the inefficiency of traditional gradient-based schemes and the demand for distributed implementation in local area networks, we localize the global parameters and propose a quasi-distributed quadratic allocation algorithm to provide two-level service guarantees, the first level is QoS oriented, and the second level is QoE oriented. Simulations have shown the efficient performance of the proposed algorithm. The users with more stringent QoS requirements require more subcarriers to guarantee their statistical delay QoS requirements. We also analyze the effect of subcarrier granularity on the aggregate effective capacity via simulations.

Peak-to-average power ratio reduction in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing visible light communications system using a combination of a genetic algorithm and a hill-climbing algorithm

The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation technique has been used widely in visible light communications (VLC) systems to combat intersymbol interference. At the same time, the inherent drawback of OFDM with a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is brought into OFDM visible light communications (VLC-OFDM). Furthermore, considering the limited dynamic range characteristics of light-emitting diodes, the performance degradation caused by a high PAPR is more serious in VLC-OFDM. In this paper, we propose a partial transmit sequence (PTS) technique based on the combination of a genetic algorithm (GA) and a hill-climbing algorithm (GH-PTS) to solve the problem of high PAPR. GH-PTS is a modified PTS technique based on GA-PTS. Essentially, GH-PTS is a local optimization of GA-PTS. Simulation results show that the optimized technique is able to reduce PAPR more effectively without any loss of bit error rate performance than the GA-PTS technique in VLC-OFDM system.