An Efficient Flicker-Free FEC Coding Scheme for Dimmable Visible Light Communication Based on Polar Codes

Visible light communication (VLC) can provide short-range optical wireless communication, together with illumination using light-emitting diode (LED) lightings. Since conventional forward error correction (FEC) codes cannot provide two lighting related features, dimming support, and flicker mitigation, the existing coding schemes for reliable VLC usually rely on auxiliary coding techniques, which cause a complicated structure and a low transmission efficiency. In this paper, based on polar codes, an efficient and flicker-free FEC coding scheme for dimmable VLC is proposed to increase the transmission efficiency and simplify the coding structure. Taking advantage of polar codes’ recursive encoding structure, the proposed scheme can guarantee the equal probability and the short runs of 1 s and 0 s for arbitrary code rate without extra coding components. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme can have twice higher transmission efficiency than the existing schemes. Furthermore, at a dimming ratio of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$25\%$</tex-math></inline-formula> or <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$75\%$</tex-math></inline-formula>, the coding gain of the proposed scheme is about 4.6 dB and 1.4 dB higher than that of the Reed–Solomon (RS) codes based scheme and the low-density parity check code based scheme, respectively.

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