Differential Amplitude Pulse-Position Modulation for Indoor Wireless Optical Communications
Date
2005
Authors
Sethakaset, Ubolthip
Gulliver, Thomas Aaron
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Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Abstract
We propose a novel differential amplitude pulse-position modulation (DAPPM) for indoor optical wireless communications. DAPPM yields advantages over PPM, DPPM, and DH-PIMĪ± in terms of bandwidth requirements, capacity, and peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). The performance of a DAPPM system with an unequalized receiver is examined over nondispersive and dispersive channels. DAPPM can provide better bandwidth and/or power efficiency than PAM, PPM, DPPM, and DH-PIMĪ± depending on the number of amplitude levels A and the maximum length L of a symbol. We also show that, given the same maximum length, DAPPM has better bandwidth efficiency but requires about 1 dB and 1.5 dB more power than PPM and DPPM, respectively, at high bit rates over a dispersive channel. Conversely, DAPPM requires less power than DH-PIM2.When the number of bits per symbol is the same, PAM requires more power, and DH-PIM2 less power, than DAPPM. Finally, it is shown that the performance of DAPPM can be improved with MLSD, chip-rate DFE, and multichip-rate DFE.
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SpringerOpen
Keywords
differential amplitude pulse-position modulation, optical wireless communications, intensity modulation and direct detection, decision-feedback equalization
Citation
Sethakaset and Gulliver. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing 2005:1, 3ā11