Indoor optical wireless systems employing dual header pulse interval modulation (DH-PIM)

Nawras Aldibbiat, Zabih Ghassemlooy, R. McLaughlin

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Abstract

This paper assesses the performance of dual header pulse interval modulation (DH-PIM) over indoor optical wireless systems. DH-PIM being anisochronous scheme offers a built-in symbol synchronization capability. Theoretical and simulation results demonstrate that DH-PIM offers shorter symbol length, improved transmission rate and bandwidth requirement and a comparable power spectral density profile compared with digital pulse interval modulation (DPIM) and pulse position modulation (PPM) schemes. It is shown that DH-PIM2, with wider pulse duration is the preferred option when the available channel bandwidth is limited and higher optical power is tolerable. Whereas DH-PIM1, with narrower pulse width, exhibits comparable power requirements but a marginally higher bandwidth compared with DPIM, and is also more bandwidth efficient than PPM at the cost of increased power requirement. However, at higher bit resolutions, i.e. M⩾7, DH-PIM1 is both bandwidth and power efficient compared with PPM. Error rate analysis show that DH-PIM offers improved packet error rate compared with on-off-keying (OOK) and DPIM, but marginally inferior as compared with PPM. The power requirement and penalty due to intersymbol interference for non-dispersive and dispersive channels is analysed and the results show that for given parameters, DH-PIM requires marginally higher optical power compared with PPM and DPIM, but it supports the same bit rate at much less bandwidth requirement.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)285-305
JournalInternational Journal of Communication Systems
Volume18
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2005

Keywords

  • optical wireless communications
  • pulse interval modulation
  • packet error rate
  • optical power requirement
  • bandwidth requirement
  • multipath dispersion

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