Simultaneous channel estimation and signal detection in wireless ultraviolet communications combating inter-symbol-interference

Abstract

One primary challenge in wireless ultraviolet communications (UVCs) is the inter-symbol-interference (ISI), which may block the detection of current informative signal, especially when channel-related characteristics are unknown. In this paper, we propose a UV channel-related Bayesian scheme that can simultaneously estimate the channel characteristics and detect informative signals, which therefore can address the ISI disturbance. By investigating the UV single-scattering photon model, the dynamic behaviors of the channel state information (CSI), which involve the uncertain signal and the unknown channel parameters are formulated. Hence, a sequential Bayesian process is suggested to estimate the UV CSI. Numerical analysis shows that the proposed scheme can obtain a promising estimation performance (i.e., the relative errors are less than 4%), and gain an extra 4dB detection performance compared with imperfect maximum-likelihood sequence detection (MLSD) scheme.