New Hybrid PAPR Reduction Techniques for OFDM-Based Visible Light Communication Systems

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is used with visible light communication (VLC) systems to reduce the effects of inter-symbol interference (ISI) and to achieve communication with high speed of data transmission and huge bandwidth. However, OFDM-based VLC systems suffer from high pea...

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Published inJournal of optical communications Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 427 - 435
Main Authors Freag, Haitham, Hassan, Emad S., El-Dolil, Sami A., Dessouky, Moawad I.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin De Gruyter 25.10.2018
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subjects
Bandwidths
Bit error rate
clipping method
Communication
Data transmission
Discrete cosine transform
Distribution functions
Fast Fourier transformations
Fourier transforms
Hadamard transform
OFDM
Optical communication
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
PAPR reduction
Reduction
VLC systems
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Summary:Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is used with visible light communication (VLC) systems to reduce the effects of inter-symbol interference (ISI) and to achieve communication with high speed of data transmission and huge bandwidth. However, OFDM-based VLC systems suffer from high peak-to-average power ratios (PAPRs). This paper proposes a new hybrid PAPR reduction technique based on signal transformation combined with clipping. The Hadamard transform is used in the proposed technique due to its advantages in reducing the PAPR without affecting the bit error rate (BER) of VLC systems. The optimum clipping threshold at which we can simultaneously reduce the PAPR and improve the BER of VLC systems is also determined. In this paper, we also propose a new OFDM structure based on using discrete cosine transform (DCT) precoding before inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) stage to further improve the PAPR reduction capability and BER performance. Several experiments are carried out to test the performance of the proposed technique in terms of complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) and the BER. The obtained results show that the proposed technique can simultaneously reduce the PAPR and achieve good BER performance when compared to the original OFDM-based VLC system.
ISSN:0173-4911
2191-6322
DOI:10.1515/joc-2017-0002