TY - GEN
T1 - A comparison between DCO-OFDMA and synchronous one-dimensional OCDMA for optical wireless communications
AU - Fakidis, John
AU - Tsonev, Dobroslav
AU - Haas, Harald
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - In this paper, a comparison between direct-current-biased optical orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (DCO-OFDMA) and synchronous one-dimensional (1-D) optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA) is performed for optical wireless communication (OWC). Line-of-sight (LOS) channel conditions are considered in an indoor downlink scenario. The bit-error ratio (BER) performance is investigated in an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel under the conditions of equal spectral and power efficiency. For DCO-OFDMA and 1-D OCDMA, the negative-level clipping effect and multiple-access interference (MAI) are considered, respectively. For the OCDMA scheme, the categories of optical orthogonal codes (OOCs) and unipolar Walsh-Hadamard codes (WHCs) are employed. The time-division multiple-access (TDMA) is also represented in the context of synchronous OCDMA by the use of identity matrices. In order to enhance the 1-D OCDMA spectral efficiency, unipolar M-ary pulse amplitude modulation (M-PAM) is employed. The BER performance versus the average electrical signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) per bit is illustrated both for the single and the multiple-user communication using Monte Carlo simulations.
AB - In this paper, a comparison between direct-current-biased optical orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (DCO-OFDMA) and synchronous one-dimensional (1-D) optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA) is performed for optical wireless communication (OWC). Line-of-sight (LOS) channel conditions are considered in an indoor downlink scenario. The bit-error ratio (BER) performance is investigated in an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel under the conditions of equal spectral and power efficiency. For DCO-OFDMA and 1-D OCDMA, the negative-level clipping effect and multiple-access interference (MAI) are considered, respectively. For the OCDMA scheme, the categories of optical orthogonal codes (OOCs) and unipolar Walsh-Hadamard codes (WHCs) are employed. The time-division multiple-access (TDMA) is also represented in the context of synchronous OCDMA by the use of identity matrices. In order to enhance the 1-D OCDMA spectral efficiency, unipolar M-ary pulse amplitude modulation (M-PAM) is employed. The BER performance versus the average electrical signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) per bit is illustrated both for the single and the multiple-user communication using Monte Carlo simulations.
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U2 - 10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666775
DO - 10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666775
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893332312
SN - 9781467362351
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC
SP - 3605
EP - 3609
BT - 2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2013
Y2 - 8 September 2013 through 11 September 2013
ER -