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DC-Informative Joint Color-Frequency Modulation for Visible Light Communications
In this paper, we consider the problem of constellation design for a visible
light communication (VLC) system using red/green/blue light-emitting diodes
(RGB LED), and propose a method termed DC-informative joint color-frequency
modulation (DCI-JCFM). This method jointly utilizes available diversity
resources including different optical wavelengths, multiple baseband
subcarriers, and adaptive DC-bias. Constellation is designed in a high
dimensional space, where the compact sphere packing advantage over lower
dimensional counterparts is utilized. Taking into account multiple practical
illumination constraints, a non-convex optimization problem is formulated,
seeking the least error rate with a fixed spectral efficiency. The proposed
scheme is compared with a decoupled scheme, where constellation is designed
separately for each LED. Notable gains for DCI-JCFM are observed through
simulations where balanced, unbalanced and very unbalanced color illuminations
are considered.Comment: submitted to Journal of Lightwave Technology, Aug. 5th 201
A Software-Defined Multi-Element VLC Architecture
In the modern era of radio frequency (RF) spectrum crunch, visible light
communication (VLC) is a recent and promising alternative technology that
operates at the visible light spectrum. Thanks to its unlicensed and large
bandwidth, VLC can deliver high throughput, better energy efficiency, and low
cost data communications. In this article, a hybrid RF/VLC architecture is
considered that can simultaneously provide light- ing and communication
coverage across a room. Considered architecture involves a novel multi-element
hemispherical bulb design, which can transmit multiple data streams over light
emitting diode (LED) modules. Simulations considering various VLC transmitter
configurations and topologies show that good link quality and high spatial
reuse can be maintained in typical indoor communication scenarios
Metameric MIMO-OOK transmission scheme using multiple RGB LEDs
In this work, we propose a novel visible light communication (VLC) scheme utilizing multiple di erent red green and blue triplets each with a di erent emission spectrum of red, green and blue for mitigating the e ect of interference due to di erent colors using spatial multiplexing. On-o keying modulation is considered and its e ect on light emission in terms of flickering, dimming and color rendering is discussed so as to demonstrate how metameric properties have been considered. At the receiver, multiple photodiodes with color filter-tuned on each transmit light emitting diode (LED) are employed. Three di erent detection mechanisms of color zero forcing, minimum mean square error estimation and minimum mean square error equalization are then proposed. The system performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated both with computer simulations and tests with an Arduino board implementatio
Joint User Association and UAV Location Optimization for Two-Tired Visible Light Communication Networks
In this paper, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs)-assisted visible light
communication (VLC) has been considered which has two tiers: UAV-to-centroid
and device-to-device (D2D). In the UAV-to-centroid tier, each UAV can
simultaneously provide communications and illumination for the centroids of the
ground users over VLC links. In the D2D tier, the centroids retransmit received
data from UAV over D2D links to the cluster members. For network, the
optimization problem of joint user association and deployment location of UAVs
is formulated to maximize the received data, satisfy illumination constraint,
and the user cluster size. An iterative algorithm is first proposed to
transform the optimization problem into a series of two interdependent sub
problems. Following the smallest enclosing disk theorem, a random incremental
construction method is designed to find the optimal UAV locations. Then,
inspired by unsupervised learning method, a clustering algorithm to find a
suboptimal user association is proposed. Our simulation results show that the
proposed scheme on average guarantees the users brightness 0.77 lux more than
their threshold requirements. Moreover, the received bitrate plus number of D2D
connected users under our proposed method is 50.69% more than the scenario in
which we have RF Link instead of VLC link and do not optimize UAV location.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, conferenc
ASK-based spatial multiplexing RGB scheme using symbol-dependent self-interference for detection
We propose a vsible light communication scheme utilizing red, green and blue lightemitting diodes (LEDs) and three color-Tuned photodiodes. Amplitude shift keying modulation is considered, and its effect on light emission in terms of flickering, dimming, and color rendering is discussed. The presence of interference at each photodiode generated by the other two colors is used to improve detection since interference is symbol-dependent. Moreover, the capability of the photodiodes to follow the LEDs speed is considered by analyzing the possibility of equalizing the received signal, and also self-interference mitigation is proposed. The system performance is evaluated both with computer simulations and tests on an Arduino board implementation
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