Adaptive modulation in MIMO optical wireless communication systems

Wu Bin Wu Liang Zou Cairong

(School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China)



Adaptive modulation in MIMO optical wireless communication systems

Wu Bin Wu Liang Zou Cairong

(School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China)

In the intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) optical wireless communication systems, a direct-current-biased adaptive modulation scheme is proposed to guarantee the nonnegative property of transmitted signals, and the MIMO channel is converted to a parallel channel by using a singular value decomposition. Besides, a QR decomposition and successive interference cancellation based adaptive modulation scheme is proposed, and the MIMO channel can be simplified to a parallel channel under the bit error ratio (BER) target constraint. The power is optimally allocated to each sub-channel to maximize the data rate. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive modulation schemes can effectively improve the transmission rate of the systems under the BER target and constant optical power constraints. The proposed adaptive modulation schemes make use of the multiplexing gain of the MIMO techniques, and can further improve the spectrum efficiency of optical wireless systems.

optical wireless communication; multiple input and multiple output (MIMO); adaptive modulation

In the multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) radio frequency wireless communication system[1-2], precoding and successive interference cancellation are two of the most commonly used techniques to curb the inter-symbol interference. When applying precoding techniques[3], the transmitter needs to know the channel status information through the feedback of the receiver. In a practical system, the channel status information must be quantified by a limited number of bits in order to be sent back to the transmitter[4]. A practical method based on the QR decomposition and successive interference cancellation can be easily realized and applied in many areas[5].

The system spectrum efficiency can be enhanced by adaptive modulation and power allocation schemes[6]. The adaptive technique also requires the feedback information. In an adaptive modulation system based on precoding, channel state information which includes the precoding matrix must be sent back to the transmitter. In a practical system, the perfect channel state information cannot be acquired, an adaptive algorithm based on the error channel state information[7]is analyzed. Zhou et al.[8]studied the adaptive technique based on the mean value feedback. In Ref.[9], a method using the outdated channel state information was proposed. Park et al.[10]proposed an enhanced precoding scheme with limited-rate imperfect feedback.

By utilizing MIMO techniques, the anti-fading characteristics and spectrum efficiency of a system can be enhanced, and adaptive modulation can further improve the spectrum efficiency while still ensuring system performance. However, adaptive techniques in radio frequency wireless communications cannot be directly applied to optical wireless communication systems because of the intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD), which means that the transmitted signal must be nonnegative. Besides, few studies have been conducted on the adaptive modulation techniques in MIMO optical wireless communication systems. In this paper, we focus on the adaptive modulation techniques applicable to the IM/DD MIMO optical wireless communication system. Two adaptive modulation schemes are proposed for the IM/DD optical wireless communication system in flat fading channels. DC bias and singular value decomposition (SVD) are applied in the first proposed scheme, and the second scheme is based on successive interference cancellation. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes work well under the bit error ratio (BER) target and constant transmit power constraints.

1 System Model of MIMO Optical Wireless Communications

A point to point un-imaged MIMO optical wireless communication system is considered in this paper[11]. It is assumed that a transmitter consists ofntlight-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a receiver consists ofnrphotodiodes (PDs). The block diagram of the MIMO optical wireless system is shown in Fig.1. The channel of MIMO optical wireless communication can be expressed by anr×ntmatrixH, where the (i,j)-th component ofHishi,j, which is the channel coefficient from thej-th LED to thei-th PD. In line of sight (LOS) links,hi,jcan be expressed as[12]

(1)

wheremis the order of Lambertian emission,m=-ln2/ln(cosΦ1/2);Φ1/2is the semiangle at half-power of the transmitting LED;Aris the receiving area of PD;Di,jandφi,jare the distance and angle of incidence from thej-th LED to thei-th PD, respectively;Ψc,iis the field of view (FOV) of thei-th PD.

Fig.1 Block diagram of a MIMO optical wireless communication system

The received signal takes the form as

y=Hx+n

(2)

2 Adaptive Modulation Scheme based on DC-Bias and SVD

In radio frequency (RF) MIMO communication systems, the optimal precoding matrix is

UP=UH

(3)

t=UPs

(4)

Pr(v+2σν>0)≈97.8%

(5)

which is very close to 1.

Define a vectorκand itsk-th component isκk=2σt,k. By adding a DC bias, the transmitted signal can be expressed as

x=UPs+κ

(6)

(7)

After subtracting the DC bias component, the signal becomes

(8)

In the practical communication system, each component of information vectorsemploys a traditional pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) scheme, and the modulation order is chosen adaptively. It is assumed that the maximum value of thek-th spatial subchannel isZk. Therefore, thek-th component of the DC bias vectorκis

(9)

When the average transmit optical power ispa, the corresponding constraint is

(10)

(11)

(12)

whereQ-1( ·) is the inverse function of theQ-function, and it has

Thk,1≤Thk,2≤…≤Thk,6

(13)

The modulation order can be decided according to the following criteria:

(14)

The transmission rate of thek-th data stream is

(15)

whereU( ·)is the step function. Under the constant power and BER target constraints, the adaptive modulation scheme can be expressed as the following optimization problem:

(16)

s.t.

(17)

To optimize the power allocation, The maximum valueZkof thek-th data stream should satisfy

Zk∈{ThPk,i=Thk,iσn,i=1,2,…,6}

(18)

Define the incremental power as

(19)

(20)

s.t.

(21)

Theproblemcanbesolvedbythefollowingtwosteps[15]:

If the optimal modulation scheme of thek-th spatial sub-stream is 2mk,opt-PAM, the power allocation is

(22)

3 Adaptive Modulation Scheme based on QR Decomposition and Successive Interference Cancellation

3.1 The principle of QR decomposition and successive interference cancellation

It is assumed that the QR decomposition of channel matrixHis

H=UQG

(23)

whereUQis an unitary matrix andGis an upper triangle matrix. At the receiver, the received signal is multiplied by the conjugate and transpose of matrixUQ, such that the signal can be expressed as

(24)

The proof is as follows: The BER target in the uncoded adaptive modulation system is usually less than 10-3. In the optical domain, SNR is defined as

(25)

wherepais the optical power.

Therefore, the average SNR of thek-th spatial sub-channel is

(26)

where ϑk,iis the SNR of thek-th spatial sub-stream when suffering the interference fromidata streams, and it is assumed that ϑk,iare in the same order with the samei. Besides, in the practical environment, it hasnt<10 andnr<10. Therefore,

(27)

The QR decomposition and successive interference cancellation based adaptively modulated optical wireless communication system can be viewed as adaptive modulation in parallel channels.

3.2 QR decomposition and successive interference cancellation based adaptive modulation scheme

In the MIMO optical wireless system, the DC-bias PAM scheme is employed for each sub-channel. The BER performance of the DC bias PAM scheme takes the form as[14]

(28)

where SNR is in the optical domain as Eq.(25). The SNR threshold is defined as

(29)

where ThO1≤ThO2≤…≤ThO6.

When the transmit power is a constant and the BER target is set, the power is optimally allocated such that the achieved data rate is maximized. The optimization problem can be expressed as

(30)

s.t.

(31)

According to the SNR threshold, the power allocated to thek-th spatial sub-stream needs to satisfy

(32)

which can achieve the maximum spectrum.

The incremental optical power is defined as

(33)

(34)

s.t.

(35)

The problem can be solved by the following two steps[15]:

If the optimal modulation scheme of thek-th spatial sub-stream is 2mk,opt-PAM, the power allocation is

(36)

(37)

The achieved data rate of the proposed adaptive modulation is

(38)

Ifqbits are used to quantize the proportion of the power allocated for each spatial sub-stream to the total transmitted power, the total number of feedback bits are (q+3)r, where 3rbits are used to send the modulation order.

4 Simulation Results

Figs.2 and 3 depict the performance of the DC bias and SVD-based adaptive modulation scheme. Fig.2 shows the achieved data rate with different LED and PD configurations. It can be seen from Fig.2 that the achieved data rate is linearly proportional tontwhennt=nr. Fig.3 shows the simulated BER performance. It can be seen that the BER target is satisfied in all the conditions. The trend of the BER performance changes when SNR becomes great, that is because the remaining power, which can further improve the BER performance, changes with a different SNR. For example, whennt=nr=8, the BER at SNR=8 dB is worse than that at SNR=6 dB. The achieved data rate at SNR=8 dB is higher than that at SNR=6 dB, which means that the modulation order at SNR=8 dB is higher than that at SNR=6 dB. Besides, according to Eq.(37), the remaining power at SNR=8 dB may be less than that at SNR=6 dB. Therefore, BER at SNR=8 dB is worse than that at SNR=6 dB, even if the transmit power at SNR=8 dB is higher than that at SNR=6 dB. But the BER is below the BER target in all SNR regions.

Fig.2 Achieved data rate of the DC bias and SVD based adaptive modulation scheme with different LED and PD configurations

Fig.3 Simulated BER performance of DC-bias and SVD based adaptive modulation scheme with different LED and PD configurations

Fig.4 shows the achieved data rate of the QR decomposition and successive interference cancellation based adaptive modulation scheme with different quantization

Fig.4 Achieved data rate of QR decomposition and successive interference cancellation based adaptive modulation scheme with different quantization bits and nt=nr=4

bits, wherent=nr=4. It can be seen from Fig.4 that the effect of quantization bits is small in the low SNR region; when SNR is larger than 14 dB, the effect of quantization bits becomes large. Besides, the gap betweenq=4 andq=∞ is very small, which mean that 4 bits are enough to quantize the power allocation strategy. For comparison, the achieved data rate of the DC bias adaptive modulation scheme withnt=nr=4 is also plotted. It can be seen that the achieved data rate of the QR based scheme is improved, when the number of quantization bits is no less than 2.

Fig.5 depicts the BER performance. It can be seen that BER performances with different quantization bits are below the BER target. When the SNR becomes high, the trend of BER performance changes as shown in Fig.3, and it is caused by the same reason.

Fig.5 Simulated BER performance of QR decomposition and successive interference cancellation based adaptive modulation scheme with different quantization bits and nt=nr=4.

5 Conclusion

Spatial multiplexing gain in the MIMO technique can effectively improve the spectrum efficiency of the system, while the adaptive modulation techniques under certain specified constraints can further enhance the system performance. In this paper, adaptive modulation schemes in IM/DD MIMO optical wireless communication systems are studied. Two adaptive modulation techniques are proposed. The first scheme is based on DC-bias and SVD, and the second scheme is based on QR decomposition and successive interference cancellation. The first scheme is a straightforward scheme, and the achieved data rate of the second scheme is higher when the number of quantization bits is no less than 2. The maximum data rate and achieved BER performance under a given BER target and constant transmit power constraint are analyzed. Besides, the second proposed adaptive modulation technique can achieve the specified performance using finite rate feedback. The feasibility of the proposed adaptive modulation techniques are verified by the simulation results.

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多输入多输出无线光通信系统中的自适应调制技术

吴 斌 吴 亮 邹采荣

(东南大学信息科学与工程学院, 南京 210096)

在基于强度调制、直接检测的多输入多输出无线光通信系统中,为了保证发射信号非负特性,提出一种基于直流偏置的自适应调制技术,并且利用奇异值分解将多输入多输出信道转换为并行信道．此外,提出一种基于QR分解、逐次干扰消除的自适应调制技术．在目标误比特率性能条件下,利用QR分解、逐次干扰消除的特性将多输入多输出信道等效为并行信道．根据最大化可达速率的优化目标,最优地给各个子信道分配功率．仿真结果表明所提出的2种自适应调制方法在保证误比特率性能和平均发射光功率恒定的前提下,有效地提高了系统的传输速率．这2种自适应调制技术在利用多输入多输出技术空分复用增益的同时,进一步提高了无线光通信系统的频谱利用率．

可见光通信;多输入多输出;自适应调制

TN92

Foundation items：The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No.2013AA013601), the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (No.2015ZX03004009).

：Wu Bin, Wu Liang, Zou Cairong. Adaptive modulation in MIMO optical wireless communication systems[J]．Journal of Southeast University (English Edition),2015,31(2):175-180．

10.3969/j.issn.1003-7985.2015.02.003

10.3969/j.issn.1003-7985.2015.02.003

Received 2014-10-23.

Biographies：Wu Bin (1974—), male, graduate; Zou Cairong (corresponding author), male, doctor, professor, zoucairong@seu.edu.cn.