Abstract
In the field of visible light communication (VLC) systems, carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation have lately been
explored as an alternative to various modulation techniques, especially optical orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing.
This study simulates the performance of carrier-less amplitude phase (CAP) modulation compared to basic On-Off Keying
in terms of bit-error-rate, constellation diagram and eye diagram. The performance of CAP-2, CAP -4 and CAP-8 was
considered in this study due to low computational complexity. Based on various modulation orders of CAP signals, CAP-4
has the lowest EVM (-10.90 dB) and highest MER (11.30 dB) which indicates better performance, supported by good eyediagram representation. Non-square constellation diagram limits the performance of CAP-8 scheme.
Keywords
Visible Light Communication, Carrier-Less Amplitude Phase Modulation.
Citation
JOYCE YEW PEI LING, ZAITON ABDUL MUTALIP, AFIF HAKIM HASANUDIN, FAEZAH JASMAN, ZEINA RIHAWI, Performance evaluation of carrier-less amplitude phase modulation scheme for indoor visible light communication system, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 17, 1-2, January-February 2023, pp.51-60 (2023).
Submitted at: June 29, 2022
Accepted at: Feb. 6, 2023