Performance analysis of OTFS over mobile multipath channels for visible light communication

Abstract

Visible light communication (VLC) is eco-friendly and low-cost supplement to the existing radio frequency (RF) based communication system. However, the performance of VLC based system is limited by dispersive characteristics of the VLC channel which leads to inter-symbol-interference (ISI) and inter-carrier-interference (ICI). To alleviate the ISI and ICI, orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has been proposed in the literature for both RF and millimeter wave communication systems. However, the performance analysis of OTFS over mobile multipath VLC channels is still an open area to investigate. This paper investigates the performance of OTFS over mobile multipath channels for the VLC system. Simulations performed over the realistic mobile multipath VLC channel indicate that OTFS with message passing detector exhibit better bit error rate over the conventional orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme with minimum mean square error based detector. © 2020 IEEE.