Improved TKM-TR methods for PAPR reduction of DCO-OFDM visible light communications

The dc-biased optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) system is experimentally demonstrated as an appealing candidate in future visible light communication (VLC) system. However, the intrinsic high PAPR drawback that the DCO-OFDM system suffers from still needs to be addressed and few effective approach has been found so far. To deal with this problem, in this paper, the tone reservation (TR) technique based the time domain kernel matrix (TKM-TR) schemes for reducing the PAPR are studied and applied to DCO-OFDM system. Aiming at the drawback of its severe tailing in previous TKM-TR schemes, first an improved TKM-TR scheme is proposed, in which the peak regrowth caused by severe tailing is eliminated by optimizing the scaling factors. In addition, considering the clipping ratio (CR) value in TKM-TR scheme is greatly related to the PAPR reduction performance, an extensively used heuristic global optimization algorithm, the particle swarm optimization (PSO) method is employed in TKM-TR to obtain a better CR for more PAPR reduction. Simulation results show that the improved TKM-TR scheme can efficiently address the tailing problem in previous TKM-TR schemes and achieve better PAPR reduction. Moreover, due to the powerful searching ability, PSO based TKM-TR scheme achieves more PAPR reduction and lower bit error rate (BER).