Wireless Optical Communication Systems / Edition 1

by Steve Hranilovic

Overview

Wireless Optical Communication Systems addresses the problem of designing efficient signalling and provides a link between the areas of communication theory and modem design for amplitude constrained linear optical intensity channel. Topics include historical perspective, channel impairments, amplitude constraints and the characteristics of popular optoelectronic components. A variety of wireless optical channel topologies are presented along with a survey and analysis of present day signalling techniques employed for these channels. The author provides a unifying framework for signalling design which allows the channel constraints to be represented geometrically and permits the use of modem design principles from electrical channels. Modulation schemes are designed using the formalism of lattice codes and a design process for signalling sets is specified. The use of multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) wireless optical channels to improve the spectral efficiency of links is explored. The basic spatio-temporal modem design problem is specified and a spatial multiplexing gain is quantified. New spatial discrete multitone modulation is proposed and the unique features are discussed. Based on measurements on an experimental prototype, a channel model is formulated and a realizable spatio-temporal coding scheme is simulated to quantify performance gains. This volume is organized for professional and academic readers engaged in modem design for wireless optical intensity channels. Significant background material is presented on both the properties as well as on fundamental communications principles. Wireless Optical Communication Systems can be used by physicists and experimentalists as an introduction to signalling design as well as communication systems designers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387227849
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	09/02/2004
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	197
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction. 1. INTRODUCTION. 1.1 A Brief History of Wireless Optical Communications. 1.2 Overview. 2. WIRELESS OPTICAL INTENSITY CHANNELS. 2.1 Wireless Optical Intensity Channels. 2.2 Optoelectronic Components. 2.3 Noise. 2.4 Channel Topologies. 2.5 Summary. 3. AN INTRODUCTION TO OPTICAL INTENSITY SIGNALLING. 3.1 Communication System Model. 3.2 Bandwidth. 3.3 Example Modulation. 3.4 The Communication System Design Problem. Part II Signalling Design. 4. OPTICAL INTENSITY SIGNAL SPACE MODEL. 4.1 Signal Space of Optical Intensity Signals. 4.2 Examples. 4.3 Conclusions. 5. LATTICE CODES. 5.1 Definition of Lattice Codes. 5.2 Constellation Figure of Merit, Gain. 5.3 Baseline Constellation. 5.4 Spectral Considerations. 5.5 Gain versus a Baseline Constellation. 5.6 Continuous Approximation to Optical Power Gain. 5.7 Coding Gain. 5.8 Shaping Gain. 5.9 Shaping Gain: Expression. 5.10 Shaping Gain: Peak-Symmetric Schemes. 5.11 Opportunistic Secondary Channels. 5.12 Example Lattice Codes. 5.13 Conclusions. 6. CHANNEL CAPACITY. 6.1 Background. 6.2 Problem Definition. 6.3 Bandwidth Constraint. 6.4 Upper bound on Channel Capacity. 6.5 Lower bound on Channel Capacity. 6.6 Examples and Discussion. 6.7 Conclusions. Part III Multi-Element Techniques. 7. THE MULTIPLE-INPUT / MULTIPLE-OUTPUT WIRELESS OPTICAL CHANNEL. 7.1 Previous Work. 7.2 The MIMO Wireless Optical Channel. 7.3 Design Challenges. 7.4 Pixel-Matched System. 7.5 The Pixelated Wireless Optical Channel. 7.6 Conclusions. 8. PROTOTYPE MIMO OPTICAL CHANNEL: MODELLING & SPATIO-TEMPORAL CODING. 8.1 Experimental Prototype. 8.2 Channel Model. 8.3 Pixel-Matched Systems. 8.4 Pixelated Wireless Optical Channel. 8.5 Conclusions. 9. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS. 9.1 Conclusions. 9.2 Future Work