Time-Collaborative Constellation Design With Finite-Alphabet Inputs for Two-User Multi-Access Visible Light Communications

Ubiquitous light-emitting diodes provide natural infrastructures for multiuser visible light communications (VLCs). However, the current available works for multiuser VLC systems mainly focus on broadcast scenarios and beamforming techniques. In this paper, we consider a multiuser multi-access VLC s...

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Main Authors: Zhen-Yu Wang, Hong-Yi Yu, Da-Ming Wang
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Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
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description Ubiquitous light-emitting diodes provide natural infrastructures for multiuser visible light communications (VLCs). However, the current available works for multiuser VLC systems mainly focus on broadcast scenarios and beamforming techniques. In this paper, we consider a multiuser multi-access VLC system with finite-alphabet inputs. Intended for two-user multi-access VLC systems, we propose an energy-efficient time-collaborative constellation design to manage the nonnegative multiuser interference and we develop a joint maximum-likelihood demodulation and successive interference cancellation decoding algorithm for signal detection. Simulation results indicate that our proposed time-collaborative constellation design outperforms time-uncollaborative scheme in error performance perspective.
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spelling doaj-art-c98b0219f6df4f5da108677ec39fb6362025-08-20T02:38:11ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552019-01-0111311010.1109/JPHOT.2019.29100838686165Time-Collaborative Constellation Design With Finite-Alphabet Inputs for Two-User Multi-Access Visible Light CommunicationsZhen-Yu Wang0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8848-5932Hong-Yi Yu1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0417-2179Da-Ming Wang2National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Center, Zhengzhou, ChinaNational Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Center, Zhengzhou, ChinaNational Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Center, Zhengzhou, ChinaUbiquitous light-emitting diodes provide natural infrastructures for multiuser visible light communications (VLCs). However, the current available works for multiuser VLC systems mainly focus on broadcast scenarios and beamforming techniques. In this paper, we consider a multiuser multi-access VLC system with finite-alphabet inputs. Intended for two-user multi-access VLC systems, we propose an energy-efficient time-collaborative constellation design to manage the nonnegative multiuser interference and we develop a joint maximum-likelihood demodulation and successive interference cancellation decoding algorithm for signal detection. Simulation results indicate that our proposed time-collaborative constellation design outperforms time-uncollaborative scheme in error performance perspective.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8686165/Time-collaborative constellation designmaximum likelihood detectionmulti-accessfinite-alphabet inputs and visible light communications.
spellingShingle Zhen-Yu Wang
Hong-Yi Yu
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Time-Collaborative Constellation Design With Finite-Alphabet Inputs for Two-User Multi-Access Visible Light Communications
IEEE Photonics Journal
Time-collaborative constellation design
maximum likelihood detection
multi-access
finite-alphabet inputs and visible light communications.
title Time-Collaborative Constellation Design With Finite-Alphabet Inputs for Two-User Multi-Access Visible Light Communications
title_full Time-Collaborative Constellation Design With Finite-Alphabet Inputs for Two-User Multi-Access Visible Light Communications
title_fullStr Time-Collaborative Constellation Design With Finite-Alphabet Inputs for Two-User Multi-Access Visible Light Communications
title_full_unstemmed Time-Collaborative Constellation Design With Finite-Alphabet Inputs for Two-User Multi-Access Visible Light Communications
title_short Time-Collaborative Constellation Design With Finite-Alphabet Inputs for Two-User Multi-Access Visible Light Communications
title_sort time collaborative constellation design with finite alphabet inputs for two user multi access visible light communications
topic Time-collaborative constellation design
maximum likelihood detection
multi-access
finite-alphabet inputs and visible light communications.
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8686165/
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