Experimental demonstration of OFDM/OQAM transmission with DFT-based channel estimation for visible laser light communications

Jing He; Jin Shi; Rui Deng; Lin Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2273297

24 August 2017 Experimental demonstration of OFDM/OQAM transmission with DFT-based channel estimation for visible laser light communications

Jing He, Jin Shi, Rui Deng, Lin Chen

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Proceedings Volume 10395, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing XI; 103950Z (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273297
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Recently, visible light communication (VLC) based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is considered as a candidate technology for fifth-generation (5G) communications, VLC is free of electromagnetic interference and it can simplify the integration of VLC into heterogeneous wireless networks. Due to the data rates of VLC system limited by the low pumping efficiency, small output power and narrow modulation bandwidth, visible laser light communication (VLLC) system with laser diode (LD) has paid more attention. In addition, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing/offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OFDM/OQAM) is currently attracting attention in optical communications. Due to the non-requirement of cyclic prefix (CP) and time-frequency domain well-localized pulse shapes, it can achieve high spectral efficiency. Moreover, OFDM/OQAM has lower out-of-band power leakage so that it increases the system robustness against inter-carrier interference (ICI) and frequency offset. In this paper, a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)-based channel estimation scheme combined with the interference approximation method (IAM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for VLLC OFDM/OQAM system. The performance of VLLC OFDM/OQAM system with and without DFT-based channel estimation is investigated. Moreover, the proposed DFT-based channel estimation scheme and the intra-symbol frequency-domain averaging (ISFA)-based method are also compared for the VLLC OFDM/OQAM system. The experimental results show that, the performance of EVM using the DFT-based channel estimation scheme is improved about 3dB compared with the conventional IAM method. In addition, the DFT-based channel estimation scheme can resist the channel noise effectively than that of the ISFA-based method.

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Jing He, Jin Shi, Rui Deng, and Lin Chen "Experimental demonstration of OFDM/OQAM transmission with DFT-based channel estimation for visible laser light communications", Proc. SPIE 10395, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing XI, 103950Z (24 August 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273297

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