Channel Estimation Using Optical MIMO OFDM Based LED Index Modulation

Abstract

In this paper, a new MIMO channel estimation technique is proposed for generalized LED index modulation (GLIM-OFDM) developed for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based VLC systems. The mean square error (MSE) of the channel estimation algorithm, the bit error rate (BER) and the Cramer-Rao (CR) lower-bound of the system were obtained analytically and the performance of the algorithm according to the signal-to-noise ratio was investigated by computer simulations. From the obtained MSE, BER and CR curves it is concluded that the MSE performance of the proposed channel estimation algorithm is very high and the BER performance of the system obtained with the estimated channel information is very close to the BER performance in the case of perfect knowledge of the channel.