Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue 2, 125(2015)

A novel repetition space-time coding scheme for mobile FSO systems

Ming LI1、*, Yang CAO2, Shu-ming LI1, and Shao-wen YANG1
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  • 1Department of Information Engineering, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi 435002, China
  • 2School of Electronic Information & Automation, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400050, China
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    Considering the influence of more random atmospheric turbulence, worse pointing errors and highly dynamic link on the transmission performance of mobile multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) free space optics (FSO) communication systems, this paper establishes a channel model for the mobile platform. Based on the combination of Alamouti space-time code and time hopping ultra-wide band (TH-UWB) communications, a novel repetition space-time coding (RSTC) method for mobile 2×2 free-space optical communications with pulse position modulation (PPM) is developed. In particular, two decoding methods of equal gain combining (EGC) maximum likelihood detection (MLD) and correlation matrix detection (CMD) are derived. When a quasi-static fading and weak turbulence channel model are considered, simulation results show that whether the channel state information (CSI) is known or not, the coding system demonstrates more significant performance of the symbol error rate (SER) than the uncoding. In other words, transmitting diversity can be achieved while conveying the information only through the time delays of the modulated signals transmitted from different antennas. CMD has almost the same effect of signal combining with maximal ratio combining (MRC). However, when the channel correlation increases, SER performance of the coding 2×2 system degrades significantly.

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    LI Ming, CAO Yang, LI Shu-ming, YANG Shao-wen. A novel repetition space-time coding scheme for mobile FSO systems[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2015, 11(2): 125

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jan. 31, 2015

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017

    The Author Email: Ming LI (liming2825@126.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-015-5021-2

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