Low-SNR Capacity of Parallel IM-DD Optical Wireless Channels

Anas Chaaban; Zouheir Rezki; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

doi:10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2633339

Low-SNR Capacity of Parallel IM-DD Optical Wireless Channels

Anas Chaaban, Zouheir Rezki, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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The capacity of parallel intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IM-DD) optical wireless channels with total average intensity and per-channel peak intensity constraints is studied. The optimal intensity allocation at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived, leading to the capacity-achieving onoff keying (OOK) distribution. Interestingly, while activating the strongest channel is optimal if (i) the peak intensity is fixed, this is not the case if (ii) the peak intensity is proportional to the average intensity. The minimum average optical intensity per bit is also studied, and is characterized for case (i) where it is achievable at low SNR. However, in case (ii), the average optical intensity per bit grows indefinitely as SNR decreases, indicating that lower optical intensity per bit can be achieved at moderate SNR than at low SNR.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	484-487
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Communications Letters
Volume	21
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2633339
State	Published - Nov 29 2016

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Acknowledgements: This work was supported in part by the Qatar National Research Fund (a
member of Qatar Foundation) under Grant NPRP 9-077-2-036. The statements
made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors

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Low-SNR Capacity of Parallel IM-DD Optical Wireless Channels

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