Emerging systems such as Internet-of-things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications have strict requirements on the power consumption of used equipments and associated complexity in the transceiver design. As a result, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) solutions might not be directly suitable for these system due to their high complexity, inter-antenna synchronization (IAS) requirement, and high interantenna interference (IAI) problems. In order to overcome these problems, we propose two novel index modulation (IM) schemes, namely pulse index modulation (PIM) and generalized PIM (GPIM) for single-input single-output (SISO) schemes. The proposed models use well-localized and orthogonal Hermite-Gaussian pulses for data transmission and provide high spectral efficiency owing to the Hermite-Gaussian pulse indices. Besides, it has been shown via analytical derivations and computer simulations that the proposed PIM and GPIM systems have better error performance and considerable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain compared to existing spatial modulation (SM), quadrature SM (QSM), and traditional M -ary systems.
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