Abstract
This paper presents simulation results that show the principle of implementing multi-band carrierless amplitude and phase (m-CAP) modulation enhanced by the decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for a bandlimited visible light communications (VLC) system. When deploying different number of sub-carriers m = {1, 2, 5, 10}, we show the bit error rate (BER) performance of m-CAP over a fixed system bandwidth of 1 Hz with and without a DFE. We show that we can achieve a BER of 10-4 for the m-CAP system for m = {1, 2}, which is well below the 7% and 20% forward error correction (FEC) BER limits of 3.8×10-3 and 2×10-2, respectively.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2015 4th International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (IWOW) |
Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 6-10 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4673-7726-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2015 |
Keywords
- Multi-band carrier less amplitude and phase modulation
- band limited VLC system
- decision feedback equalizer