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

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    Abstract

    The authors present efficient frequency-domain channel estimation methods based on the intra-symbol frequency-domain 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
    JournalIET Communications
    Volume11
    Issue number1
    Early online date22 Dec 2016
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jan 2017

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