Efficient frequency-domain channel equalisation methods for ofdm visible light communications

  • Bangjiang Lin*
  • , Xuan Tang
  • , Zabih Ghassemlooy
  • , Shihao Zhang
  • , Yiwei Li
  • , Yi Wu
  • , Hui Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The authors present efficient frequency-domain channel estimationmethods based on the intra-symbol frequencydomain averaging (ISFA), minimum mean squared error (MMSE) and weighted inter-frame averaging (WIFA) schemes for the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) visible light communications (VLC) system. OFDM-VLC with quadrature phase shift keying, 16- and 64-quadrature amplitude modulation mapping is experimentally demonstrated. Compared with the conventional least square channel estimation method, ISFA, MMSE and WIFA offer improved performance with MMSE offering the best performance in terms of the error vector magnitude but at the cost of high complexity. The authors show that the WIFA can improve the estimation accuracy of time-varying VLC optical channel.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)25-29
Number of pages5
JournalIET Communications
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes

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