scholarly journals LED Nonlinearity Estimation and Compensation in VLC Systems Using Probabilistic Bayesian Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 2711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Chen ◽  
Xiong Deng ◽  
Yanbing Yang ◽  
Pengfei Du ◽  
Helin Yang ◽  
...  

In this paper, we propose and evaluate a novel light-emitting diode (LED) nonlinearity estimation and compensation scheme using probabilistic Bayesian learning (PBL) for spectral-efficient visible light communication (VLC) systems. The nonlinear power-current curve of the LED transmitter can be accurately estimated by exploiting PBL regression and hence the adverse effect of LED nonlinearity can be efficiently compensated. Simulation results show that, in a 80-Mbit/s orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based nonlinear VLC system, comparable bit-error rate (BER) performance can be achieved by the conventional time domain averaging (TDA)-based LED nonlinearity mitigation scheme with totally 20 training symbols (TSs) and the proposed PBL-based scheme with only a single TS. Therefore, compared with the conventional TDA scheme, the proposed PBL-based scheme can substantially reduce the required training overhead and hence greatly improve the overall spectral efficiency of bandlimited VLC systems. It is also shown that the PBL-based LED nonlinearity estimation and compensation scheme is computational efficient for the implementation in practical VLC systems.

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 948
Author(s):  
Jenn-Kaie Lain ◽  
Yan-He Chen

By modulating the optical power of the light-emitting diode (LED) in accordance with the electrical source and using a photodetector to convert the corresponding optical variation back into electrical signals, visible light communication (VLC) has been developed to achieve lighting and communications simultaneously, and is now considered one of the promising technologies for handling the continuing increases in data demands, especially indoors, for next generation wireless broadband systems. During the process of electrical-to-optical conversion using LEDs in VLC, however, signal distortion occurs due to LED nonlinearity, resulting in VLC system performance degradation. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are thought to be capable of achieving universal function approximation, which was the motivation for introducing ANN predistortion to compensate for LED nonlinearity in this paper. Without using additional training sequences, the related parameters in the proposed ANN predistorter can be adaptively updated, using a feedback replica of the original electrical source, to track the LED time-variant characteristics due to temperature variation and aging. Computer simulations and experimental implementation were carried out to evaluate and validate the performance of the proposed ANN predistorter against existing adaptive predistorter schemes, such as the normalized least mean square predistorter and the Chebyshev polynomial predistorter.


2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 050602
Author(s):  
张宇飞 Zhang Yufei ◽  
张洪明 Zhang Hongming ◽  
王鹏 Wang Peng ◽  
刘涛 Liu Tao ◽  
孙德栋 Sun Dedong ◽  
...  

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1713
Author(s):  
Hyunwoo Jung ◽  
Sung-Man Kim

We experimentally demonstrated full-duplex light-emitting diode (LED)-to-LED visible light communication (VLC) using LEDs as the transmitter and receiver. Firstly, we investigated the performance dependency on the wavelengths of the LED transmitter and receiver by measuring the rise time and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Through the investigation, we were able to choose the optimal LED color set for LED-to-LED VLC using Shannon’s channel capacity law. The bit error rate (BER) results of full-duplex and half-duplex LED-to-LED VLC systems with the optimal LED sets are shown to compare the performance. Furthermore, we discuss major distortions and signal losses in the full-duplex LED-to-LED VLC system.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hany S. Hussein ◽  
Mohamed Hagag ◽  
Mohammed Farrag

An efficient optical modulation technique for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) visible light communication system is proposed in this paper. The proposed modulation technique is termed as extended spatial-index light-emitting diode (LED) modulation. In the proposed technique, the indices (the spatial domain) of the LEDs are exploited in a dynamic style to not only get rid of the optical OFDM time-domain ( OFDM t d ) shaping problem but also to expand the LED indices spatial modulation domain. The indices of the active LEDs in the proposed technique are changed from the two LEDs active situation to the situation where all or several LEDs are active. Moreover, within the selected active LED indices, the power weight distribution and the positions of the OFDM components are varied to expand the resultant spatial domain. Therefore, the proposed technique offers a considerable spectral efficiency improvement over the up-to-date LED index OFDM modulation schemes even with a lower number of LEDs. The key idea of the proposed technique is to maximize the LEDs’ indices spatial position (spatial domain) utilization, where both the power weight allocation and the positions of the complex OFDM time domain components are varying several times over the same active LED indices combination, which improve the optical system spectral efficiency. The simulation results asserted the superiority of the proposed technique, as it improves both the average bit error rate (ABER) and the achievable data rate (R) compared with existing up-to-date OFDM-LED index modulations with even lower computational complexity.


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