Abstract
Here, the authors propose and apply two novel schemes of multi-band carrierless amplitude and phase (m-CAP) modulation for spatial modulation (SM)-based visible light communications (VLC) systems. In SM, both spatial and signal constellation are utilised to improve the performance of the m-CAP system. Here, they have adopted the non-DC m-CAP which is a power efficient technique with no DC-bias. The bit error rate (BER) performance and the spectral efficiency of the proposed systems are compared with single-input single-output (SISO) and multiplexing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) m-CAP systems. Results demonstrate that non-DC m-CAP, with the same spectral efficiency as that of SISO m-CAP, outperforms other schemes in terms of BER due to its power efficiency; however, a higher spectral efficiency can be achieved by the SM-MIMO mCAP scheme.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 281-287 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | IET Optoelectronics |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 23 Oct 2019 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2019 |