Analysis of the Perfect Nulling Technique in FFT Hybrid PLC-VLC System Based on ACO-OFDM in Impulsive Noise

Irvine Mapfumo, Thokozani Shongwe, Khaled Rabie

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Abstract

This paper reports on findings on the analysis of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) hybrid power line communication (PLC) - visible light communication (VLC) system (PLC- VLC) based on ACO-OFDM in impulsive noise, when the perfect nulling technique is utilized to combat noise in the system. In this work, we develop theoretical expressions that describe the error floors realized in the system due to perfect nulling. Perfect nulling refers to a noise mitigation technique that perfectly identifies impulsive noise locations in a string of data samples and clips them to zero, leading to an error floor at a high Signal to Noise (SNR) ratio. Thus, the principal contribution of this paper is to analyze and derive theoretical Bit Error Rate (BER) expressions for the error floor achieved by a BPSK OFDM signal in the FFT hybrid PLC-VLC system based on asymmetrically clipped optical - orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM), in a channel corrupted with Added White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and impulsive noise. The derived theoretical BER results will be compared to the error floors obtained through simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1183-1188
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665467490
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event18th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2022 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 30 May 20223 Jun 2022

Publication series

Name2022 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2022

Conference

Conference18th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2022
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period30/05/223/06/22

Keywords

  • ACO-OFDM
  • FFT
  • PLC-VLC

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Signal Processing
  • Instrumentation

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