Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a novel concatenated coded modulation composed of adaptive turbo code with trellis-coded modulation (ATTCM) that is based on generalized frequency division multiplex (GFDM) system. The proposed scheme has low complexity and provides high spectrum efficiency and significant coding gain. An experiment with 4 Gbit/s novel concatenated coded modulation GFDM system is successfully demonstrated with the proposed method. It is shown that the novel concatenated coding modulation signal (ATTCM 32QAM) provides 2.3 dB coding gain over that of TCM32QAM signal at bit error rate of 1e-3. This paper indicates a prospect solution for the future fifth generation optical access system.

1. Introduction

At present, the dramatic growth of services demands of the optical fiber communication increases rapidly. Optical access network is a strong candidate for connecting the backbone network with the end users, which provides high speed and high reliability for bandwidth hungry applications [1], [2].Currently commercial access systems mainly apply lean single carrier, However, the increasing demands of users are pushing forward to extend bandwidth resources, the multicarrier technology has been proposed in the past few years, fourth generation (4G) cellular systems based on OFDM technology have been optimized to provide high data rates and reliable coverage to mobile users [3]. Nevertheless, OFDM is susceptible to inter-carrier interference and synchronization errors. Additional overhead such as cyclic prefix (CP) is needed to alleviate the interference [3]. While generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) based on multicarrier filter bank is a strong modulation technique for the fifth generation (5G) standard [4]–[7]. The main characteristic of GFDM is low out of band emission, insensitive to frequency offset and phase noise. Cyclic prefix is added to each GFDM block instead of each GFDM symbol. The peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) can be reduced by designing the flexible pulse shaping of individual subcarriers [6], [7].