Abatement of PAPR for ACO-OFDM deployed in VLC systems by frequency modulation of the baseband signal forming a constant envelope

Abstract To inhibit the effect of non-linearity of the LEDs leading to a significant increase in the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of the OFDM signals in the Visible light communication (VLC) we propose a frequency modulated constant envelope OFDM (FM CE-OFDM) technique. The abrupt amplitude variations in the OFDM signal are frequency modulated before being applied to the LED for electro-optical conversion resulting in a constant envelope signal. The LED is maintained in the linear region of operation by this constant envelope signal at sufficient DC bias. The proposed technique reduces the PAPR to the least possible value ≈0 dB. We theoretically analyze and perform numerical simulations to assess the enhancement of the proposed system. The optimal modulation index is found to be 0.3. The metrics pertaining to the evaluation of the phase discontinuity is derived and is found to be lesser for the FM CE-OFDM as compared to the phase modulated (PM) CE-OFDM. The receiver sensitivity is improved by 1.6 dB for a transmission distance of 2 m for the FM CE-OFDM as compared to the PM CE-OFDM at the FEC threshold. We compare the BER performance of the ideal OFDM (without the non linearity of LED), power back-off OFDM, PM CE-OFDM and FM CE-OFDM in an optical wireless channel (OWC) scenario. The FM CE-OFDM has an improvement of 2.1 dB SNR at the FEC threshold as compared to the PM CE-OFDM. It also shows an improvement of 11 dB when compared with the power back-off technique used in the VLC systems for 10 dB power back-off.

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