Generalized maximum-likelihood sequence detection for photon-counting free space optical systems

Authors:
Nestor D. Chatzidiamantis;George K. Karagiannidis;Murat Uysal
Affiliations:
Wireless Communications Systems Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Wireless Communications Systems Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;School of Engineering, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We investigate detection methods for on-off keying (OOK) photon-counting Free Space Optical (FSO) systems in the presence of turbulence-induced fading, assuming no channel state information at the receiver. To recover the performance loss which is associated with symbol-by-symbol detection in such a scenario, we consider sequence detection techniques, exploiting the temporal correlation of the FSO channel. Due to its high complexity in the calculation of its metric, optimal maximum likelihood sequence detection (MLSD) is infeasible for most practical purposes. Hence, we propose a suboptimal low-complexity detection rule, which is based on the generalized maximum-likelihood sequence estimation. The proposed scheme allows the detection of sequence lengths that are prohibitive for conventional MLSD, without using any kind of channel knowledge. Monte Carlo simulation results show its performance to be very close to the optimum for large sequence lengths and various fading models.