This article presents a developed intensity modulation/direct detection (IM/DD) optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (O-OFDM). More precisely, the presented C-O-OFDM is based on the C-transform as a unitary orthogonal transform instead of the state-of-the-art discrete Fourier transform (DFT). Due to the properties of the real C-transform, Hermitian symmetry (HS) is not required to produce real OFDM samples. Therefore, the proposed scheme supports twice the input symbols compared to conventional DFT-based OFDM system. Real data mapping and DC bias technology is considered to evaluate the performance of the presented scheme over optical wireless multipath. The simulation results shows that the proposed C-O-OFDM is more resilience to multipath phenomena than the competitive DFT-O-OFDM and DHT-O-OFDM schemes for similar bit rate. The proposed scheme achieves about 22 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain in comparison with the DFT-O-OFDM and about 2.5dB SNR gain in comparison with the DHT-O-OFDM scheme.
This paper presents an insufficient cyclic prefix (CP) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system with equalizer whose coefficients are calculated using Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm. The OFDM signal is passed through a channel with four multipath signals which cause the OFDM signal to be under high inter-symbol interference (ISI) and inter-carrier interference (ICI).8-QAM and 16-QAM digital modulation techniques are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The simulation results have accentuated the high performance of the LMS equalizer via comparing its Bit Error Rate (BER) and constellation diagram with those of the Minimum Mean Square Error and Zero Forcing equalizers. Moreover, the results also reveal that the LMS equalizer provides BER performance close to that of the OFDM system with a hypothetical sufficient CP.