• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.1840-1846
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• 2014

An experimental outdoor optical wireless data communication system with an optical filter in the presence of sunlight or artificial light is presented. For the efficient blocking of light noise outdoors, we employ an optical filter made of microlouver film on the top of the photo diode. This filter is designed to block any light noise incident from an angle higher than $30^{\circ}$ on the assumption that light noise does not face the photo diode horizontally. Outdoor experiments daytime with the optical filtering have been conducted. The experimental results demonstrate that the optical filter effectively blocks nearly all light noise incident from the specified angle or higher and more than 90% of the transmitted data packets are successfully received. The proposed outdoor visible light data communication can thus facilitate a practical free space outdoor optical wireless data transmission.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.114-120
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• 2009

In outdoor visible light communication channels and LED road illumination communications for the intelligent transport systems (ITS), inter symbol interference (ISI) due to multipath propagation prevents high data rate transmission. Indoor wireless optical communication systems utilizing white LED lights and on the road illumination have been studying about it. Generally, plural lights are installed in room and considered to the traffic information system using existing LED traffic lights. Therefore, their optical path difference must be considered. In this paper, the influence of an optical path difference has been investigated and two approaches against this problem are introduced. One uses on-off keying, return-to-zero (OOK-RZ) coding and the other uses optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM).

• Journal of Advanced Information Technology and Convergence
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.147-157
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• 2018

In this study, we analyzed an outdoor visible light communication system and implemented it through a simulation. We designed a Reed-Solomon encoder, a variable interleaver structure, and set it to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.7 PHY I specification mode. We also analyzed the performance of an additive white gaussian noise (AWGN) channel environment using a root-raised-cosine (RRC) filter, implemented a MATLAB simulation and analyzed its performance. The results showed a requirement for an additional signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of approximately 1.5 dB in a 3-ray multipath visible light channel environment than in an AWGN environment.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.90-94
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• 2017

Visible light identification (VLID) is a user identification system for a door lock application using smartphone that adopts visible light communication (VLC) technology with the objective of high security, small form factor, and cost effectiveness. The user is verified by the identification application program of a smartphone via fingerprint recognition or password entry. If the authentication succeeds, the corresponding encoded visible light signals are transmitted by a light emitting diode (LED) camera flash. Then, only a small size and low cost photodiode as an outdoor interface converts the light signal to the digital data along with a comparator, and runs the authentication process, and releases the lock. VLID can utilize powerful state-of-the-art hardware and software of smartphones. Furthermore, the door lock system is allowed to be easily upgraded with advanced technologies without its modification and replacement. It can be upgraded by just update the software of smartphone application or replacing the smartphone with the latest one. Additionally, wireless connection between a smartphone and a smart home hub is established automatically via Bluetooth for updating the password and controlling the home devices. In this paper, we demonstrate a prototype VLID door lock system that is built up with LEGO blocks, a photodiode, a comparator circuit, Bluetooth module, and FPGA board.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.310-312
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose an SIM/SM system with a square-law combining. In an outdoor environment, the performance of SIM/SM deteriorates due to an atmospheric turbulence. The square-law combining technique can enhance the performance of the SIM/SM by employing square-and-integrate operation at the receiver side. For various spectral efficiencies, the performance gain increases as the number of photodetectors increases. Furthermore, as the turbulence strength increases, the performance gain also increases.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.92-93
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• 2017

최근 IT 및 사이니지 기술을 포함한 여러 기술의 발전 형태가 융복합적 기술의 방향으로 전환됨으로서, 기술 간 장벽이 허물어지고, 상호 연관성을 갖게 됨에 따라 사이니지 및 IT기술이 접목된 새로운 융복합 기술에 대한 연구가 지속적으로 이루어지고 있다. 특히, LED 광원의 일종인 사이니지를 이용하여 광 데이터를 전송할 수 있는 기술에 대한 연구가 학계, 연구소 및 관련 산업체 등에서 지속적으로 진행되고 있는 상황이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 LED 전광판 사이니지를 이용하여 무선광통신이 용이한 LED 소재에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. LED 전광판 사이니지를 이용한 무선광통신 기술은 LED 광원이 지닌 특성을 토대로 RF방식 대비 높은 주파수 대역과 고속의 데이터 전송이 가능하기 때문에 높은 잠재력과 파급력을 통하여 무선통신 분야에서의 새로운 통신 척도로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.