AHO-OFDM Dimming vs.
Spectral Efficiency Performance Study
Target Target M- M- SE_ACO- SE_PAM- SE_AHO- ACO PAM Bias ACO PAM Dimming Subcarrier
Dimming BER QAM PAM OFDM DMT OFDM Bias Level (%) and
2 2
Level (%) ACO- PAM- (Mean) Symbol
OFDM DMT
2 103 4 2 0.5 0.25 0.75 0.0221 0.0156 0.0200 0.0201 0.0230 512,20
5 103 16 4 1.0 0.5 1.5 0.0495 0.0348 0.0600 0.06588 0.06588 512,20
10 103 32 4 1.25 0.5 1.75 0.0699 0.0348 0.1000 0.1008 0.1140 512,20
20 103 64 4 1.5 0.5 2.0 0.1011 0.0348 0.2000 0.2015 0.2265 512,20
30 103 64 4 1.5 0.5 2.0 0.1014 0.0349 0.3000 0.3015 0.3265 512,20
40 103 64 8 1.5 0.75 2.25 0.1011 0.0714 0.4000 0.4007 0.4119 512,20
50 103 64 8 1.5 0.75 2.25 0.1010 0.0720 0.5000 0.5006 0.5117 512,20
60 103 64 8 1.5 0.75 2.25 0.1012 0.0718 0.6000 0.6007 0.6117 512,20
70 103 16 16 1.0 1.0 2.0 0.0494 0.1440 0.7000 0.6979 0.6623 512,20
80 103 16 16 1.0 1.0 2.0 0.0491 0.1433 0.8000 0.7979 0.7626 512,20
90 103 8 16 0.75 1.0 1.75 0.0542 0.2028 0.9000 0.8954 0.8405 256,20
95 103 4 16 0.5 1.0 1.5 0.0313 0.2022 0.9500 0.9447 0.8819 256,20
98 103 2 4 0.25 0.5 0.75 0.0442 0.0969 0.9800 0.9766 0.9532 64,20
Spectral Efficiency (bit/s/Hz)
3.5
SNR is varied from 1 to 40dB.
3
log 2 M PAM
PAM 2.5
4 2
log 2 M QAM 1.5
ACO 1
4
0.5
AHO ACO PAM 0
0 20 40 60 80 100
Without normalization and scaling factor. η(%)