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In this paper, the performance of an indoor visible light communication (VLC) system in the presence of Gaussian-plus-Laplacian additive noise is investigated. Initially, a realistic VLC system model is established by considering the effects of channel gain and Gaussian-plus-Laplacian additive noise. Theoretical expressions of the average bit error rate (ABER) and average channel capacity are derived, respectively. To show the system performance at a high signal-to-noise ratio, the asymptotic ABER expression is obtained. Numerical results show that all theoretical results agree well with the simulation results. Moreover, the effects of Laplacian noise scale parameter, dimming target, Lambertian order, and the radius of the receiver zone on system performance are also discussed.
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If the receiver is fixed in the receiver zone, the channel is determined, and the system performance can be characterized by using instantaneous BER and instantaneous channel capacity.
In addition to random receiver location, random receiver orientation in VLC can also result in the random channel gain, which will be investigated in the future.
In the VLC system, the optical interference noise, such as fluorescent noise, incandescent noise, and direct current noise, can be filtered out with a special filter [33]. As a result, the optical interference noise is ignored.
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This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant BK20221328, the Opening Project of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aerospace Communication and Networking Technology, and the open research fund of Henan Key Laboratory of Visible Light Communications under Grant HKLVLC2023-B02.
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Appendices
Appendix A: Proof of Theorem 1
The first part \({{f}_{1}}\) is given by
Using the upper incomplete Gamma function, eq. (19) holds.
The second part \({{f}_{2}}\) is given by
Let the integrand function be
By using the composite Simpson’s rule, \({{f}_{2}}\) is excepressed as
Therefore, eq. (20) holds.
The third part \({{f}_{3}}\) is given by
Because the solution process of \({{f}_{3}}\) is similar to \({{f}_{2}}\), Eq. (21) can be obtained.
The fourth part \({{f}_{4}}\) is given by
Utilizing [38, Eq. (1.5.1.3)], Eq. (22) holds.
Appendix B: Proof of Lemma 1
When \(\lambda \rightarrow 0\), the combined PDF can be expressed as
According to the definition of the Gaussian Q-function, \(Q(-\frac{n}{\sigma }+\frac{\sigma }{\lambda })\) is given by
By using the L’Hospital rule for \({{L}_{1}}\) in (B.1), we have
Similarly, \({{L}_{2}}\) is written as
Therefore, the combined PDF can be expressed as
Appendix C: Proof of Corollary 2
For a M-QAM DCO-OFDM based VLC system, the instantaneous BER is given by [41]
where SNDR is the received signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio, and it is given by
According to (17), the average BER in this scenario is expressed as (C.3), shown at the bottom of this page. By applying the composite Simpson’s rule to \({{f}_{5}}\) and \({{f}_{6}}\), eq. (27) can be obtained.
Appendix D: Proof of Theorem 2
For indoor VLC, the ACC can be expressed as
For the first term \({{y}_{1}}\), we have
Let \({{h}^{2}}=t\), \({{y}_{2}}\) in (D.1) can be simplified as
By using (11) and (26) in [42], the following equality holds
By using (D.4), \({{I}_{1}}\) can be written as (D.5), shown at the bottom of this page.
Therefore, \({{y}_{2}}\) can be finally given by
where \(\mu (a,b,c,d)\) is defined by (36).
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Liu, N., Hong, LH., Feng, P. et al. Performance analysis for visible light communications with Gaussian-plus-Laplacian additive noise. Telecommun Syst 85, 373–387 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-023-01081-7
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