Abstract

Visible light communication (VLC) has shown significant growth in recent years. VLC simultaneously offers illumination and communication. In VLC systems, dimming control is used to handle the lighting and energy consumption constraints. In this paper, a new, to the best of our knowledge, adaptive digital dimming optical-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ADDO-OFDM) based on pulse width modulation is proposed to combine enhanced asymmetrically clipped DC biased optical OFDM (EADO-OFDM) and negative EADO-OFDM (ENADO-OFDM). It exploits the performance benefits of EADO-OFDM and ENADO-OFDM. The proposed ADDO-OFDM controls the dimming level in a vast range with an acceptable bit error rate with a favorable data length.

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