9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Signal Constellation Design for Intensity Modulated Free-Space Optical Communications

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256200,
        author={Jin-Yuan Wang and Jun-Bo Wang and Ming Chen},
        title={Signal Constellation Design for Intensity Modulated Free-Space Optical Communications},
        proceedings={9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2015},
        month={1},
        keywords={signal constellation free-space optical communications interior point method},
        doi={10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256200}
    }
    
  • Jin-Yuan Wang
    Jun-Bo Wang
    Ming Chen
    Year: 2015
    Signal Constellation Design for Intensity Modulated Free-Space Optical Communications
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256200
Jin-Yuan Wang1,*, Jun-Bo Wang1, Ming Chen1
  • 1: Southeast University
*Contact email: jinyuan798@seu.edu.cn

Abstract

Free-space optical (FSO) communications is a promising candidate for future high-speed wireless communications. Signal constellation design is an important problem for all kinds of communications. In this paper, we try to design the signal constellation for the intensity modulated FSO communications. A channel model is first established, which includes atmospheric loss, atmospheric turbulence and pointing error. Under the constraints of non-negativity, peak power and average power, a signal space is obtained. Then, a distance measure based on the non-coherent maximum likelihood detection is introduced. By maximizing the minimum distance, the signal constellation optimization problem is formulated. After that, an interior point method based algorithm is given to solve the optimization problem. Simulation results are presented to show the derived signal constellation.