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Novel Spatial Modulation Channel Index Detection in Optical Wireless Communications with Signal Space Diversity

T Song, E Wong, A Nirmalathas, K Alameh, C Lim, K Wang

2020 IEEE Photonics Conference IPC 2020 Proceedings | IEEE | Published : 2020

Abstract

A novel spatial modulation channel index detection algorithm using a joint maximum-a-posteriori estimation is proposed for optical wireless communications with 4-CAP modulation and transmitter diversity. Diversity gain, enabling improvement of about 0.4dB in SNR and 1.5-times in data rate, is achieved with reduced computation complexity.