Variable weight MPPM technique for rate-adaptive optical wireless communications

Abstract

A novel rate-adaptive transmission scheme using block coding of variable Hamming weight is presented for use in indoor optical wireless communications systems. This coding scheme is based on multiple pulse-position modulation, where codewords with different Hamming weight are allowed. The improvement in performance is corroborated by bit error rate computation using Monte Carlo simulation.

Publication
Electronics Letters
José María Garrido-Balsells
José María Garrido-Balsells
Professor of Telecommunications Engineering

Professor at the University of Málaga working on wireless optical communications, free-space optical links, underwater optical wireless communications, optical channel modelling and experimental communication systems.

Antonio García-Zambrana
Antonio García-Zambrana
Professor of Telecommunications Engineering

Professor at the University of Málaga working on wireless optical communications, free-space optical links, underwater optical wireless communications, visible light communications, and FPGA/RFSoC-based real-time prototyping.

Antonio Puerta-Notario
Antonio Puerta-Notario
Emeritus Professor / Senior Researcher

Emeritus Professor at the University of Málaga with a long-standing research activity in signal theory, optical wireless communications, visible light communications, free-space optical links and communication system modelling.