부산대학교 도서관

In this letter, we propose a near-optimal low-complexity frequency-domain (FD) harmonic receiver for visible light communication based unipolar frequency-shift keying (U-FSK). The time-domain (TD) maximum-likelihood (ML) receiver for U-FSK is computationally complex, while the sub-optimal receiver increases the noise variance. The proposed harmonic receiver determines the transmitted frequency from the cross-correlations between the FD received waveform and the FD dictionary waveforms reduced to their strongest harmonics. The results shall demonstrate that besides affording a linerarithmic complexity, the performance of the harmonic receiver closely approaches that of TD ML receiver which exhibits quadratic complexity.