Pre-Distorted Enhanced ADO-OFDM for Hybrid VLC Networks: A Mutual-Interference-Free Approach

Abstract

Mutual interference is a crucial issue for the visible light communication (VLC) systems to be addressed, including both co-channel interference (CCI) and inter-carrier interference (ICI). In this paper, to solve the CCI problem, a novel optical attocell network is introduced, which can be regarded as a hybrid network based on both single frequency network and multi-frequency network. Meanwhile, to eliminate the ICI, a pre-distorted enhanced asymmetrically clipped DC biased optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (PEADO-OFDM) approach is designed. In addition, the corresponding properties of PEADO-OFDM are analyzed, and different modulation schemes are employed for downlink and uplink in the same ADO-OFDM modulation framework to reduce the complexity of user processing. Simulation results indicate that the proposed PEADO-OFDM scheme outperforms the conventional ADO-OFDM approach in terms of bit error rate, while the processing latency and computational complexity are greatly reduced at the receiver.