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Performance enhancement of LED-based indoor OFDM-VLC system using digital chaotic scheme

  • Meijun Gao
  • , Chao Li (Corresponding author)
  • , Zhengyuan Xu

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Abstract

LED based visible light communication (VLC) has become a feasible technology for indoor high-speed access networks. Optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (O-OFDM) with high spectrum efficiency is often used to increase the data rate to overcome the limited bandwidth of LEDs. Due to the LED nonlinearity and high peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) of OFDM, the indoor broadcasting OFDM-VLC system suffers from not only the performance deterioration, but also the security issue. In this paper, we propose to use digital chaotic sequence pilot-assisted (CSPA) scheme to jointly improve the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) performance and the system security. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method can achieve 3 dB PAPR mitigation even up for OFDM 64-QAM signal and 2 dB SNR improvement. Meanwhile, the proposed digital CS offers a key space of ∼10 106 for each OFDM symbol to guarantee the secure transmission.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)21-26
Number of pages6
JournalOptics Communications
Volume439
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2019

Funding

This work was supported by Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China (Grant No. 1808085MF186 ).

Keywords

  • Digital chaotic sequence pilot-assisted scheme
  • Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
  • Peak-to-average power ratio
  • Visible light communication

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