Spectral-Efficient Reconstructed LACO-OFDM Transmission for Dimming Compatible Visible Light Communications

Dimming control is critical in practical visible light communication (VLC) systems to satisfy illumination demand. Upon exploiting multiple layers of asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM) signals for simultaneous transmission, layered ACO-OFDM (LACO-OFD...

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Main Authors: Baolong Li, Wei Xu, Simeng Feng, Zhengquan Li
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Wei Xu
Simeng Feng
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Zhengquan Li
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description Dimming control is critical in practical visible light communication (VLC) systems to satisfy illumination demand. Upon exploiting multiple layers of asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM) signals for simultaneous transmission, layered ACO-OFDM (LACO-OFDM) constitutes a promising spectral-efficient modulation technique for VLC. However, dimming by integrating the industry-preferred pulsewidth modulation (PWM) to the LACO-OFDM scheme induces severe clipping noise due to the nonlinearity of LEDs. In this paper, we conceive a reconstructed LACO-OFDM (RLACO-OFDM) scheme incorporating the PWM technique for VLC to accommodate the dimming demands for indoor illumination, while maintaining a spectral-efficient communication link. Moreover, superior to its counterparts, the transmitted symbols in the RLACO-OFDM based VLC system can be readily recovered by a standard LACO-OFDM receiver while no additional detection of the PWM signal is required, which reduces the receiver complexity. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed RLACO-OFDM is capable of realizing high spectral efficiency over a broad dimming range.
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spelling doaj-art-3d1ff7c8796b455f9b54099ea944db512025-08-20T03:33:11ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552019-01-0111111410.1109/JPHOT.2019.28928498611089Spectral-Efficient Reconstructed LACO-OFDM Transmission for Dimming Compatible Visible Light CommunicationsBaolong Li0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2791-8156Wei Xu1Simeng Feng2Zhengquan Li3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3512-7103Jiangsu Provincial Engineerinig Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, ChinaNational Mobile Communication Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, ChinaNext Generation Wireless, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UKJiangsu Provincial Engineerinig Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, ChinaDimming control is critical in practical visible light communication (VLC) systems to satisfy illumination demand. Upon exploiting multiple layers of asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM) signals for simultaneous transmission, layered ACO-OFDM (LACO-OFDM) constitutes a promising spectral-efficient modulation technique for VLC. However, dimming by integrating the industry-preferred pulsewidth modulation (PWM) to the LACO-OFDM scheme induces severe clipping noise due to the nonlinearity of LEDs. In this paper, we conceive a reconstructed LACO-OFDM (RLACO-OFDM) scheme incorporating the PWM technique for VLC to accommodate the dimming demands for indoor illumination, while maintaining a spectral-efficient communication link. Moreover, superior to its counterparts, the transmitted symbols in the RLACO-OFDM based VLC system can be readily recovered by a standard LACO-OFDM receiver while no additional detection of the PWM signal is required, which reduces the receiver complexity. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed RLACO-OFDM is capable of realizing high spectral efficiency over a broad dimming range.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8611089/Visible light communication (VLC)dimming controlpulse width modulation (PWM)asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM)layered ACO-OFDM
spellingShingle Baolong Li
Wei Xu
Simeng Feng
Zhengquan Li
Spectral-Efficient Reconstructed LACO-OFDM Transmission for Dimming Compatible Visible Light Communications
IEEE Photonics Journal
Visible light communication (VLC)
dimming control
pulse width modulation (PWM)
asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM)
layered ACO-OFDM
title Spectral-Efficient Reconstructed LACO-OFDM Transmission for Dimming Compatible Visible Light Communications
title_full Spectral-Efficient Reconstructed LACO-OFDM Transmission for Dimming Compatible Visible Light Communications
title_fullStr Spectral-Efficient Reconstructed LACO-OFDM Transmission for Dimming Compatible Visible Light Communications
title_full_unstemmed Spectral-Efficient Reconstructed LACO-OFDM Transmission for Dimming Compatible Visible Light Communications
title_short Spectral-Efficient Reconstructed LACO-OFDM Transmission for Dimming Compatible Visible Light Communications
title_sort spectral efficient reconstructed laco ofdm transmission for dimming compatible visible light communications
topic Visible light communication (VLC)
dimming control
pulse width modulation (PWM)
asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM)
layered ACO-OFDM
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8611089/
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