• Title/Summary/Keyword: Visible light communications (VLC)

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Performance Analysis of Spatial Multiplexing in MIMO Based Visible Light Communication System

  • Mondal, Ratan Kumar;Saha, Nirzhar;Jang, Yeong Min
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38C no.9
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    • pp.797-801
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    • 2013
  • Visible light communication (VLC) is a rapidly growing area of research and applications, due to the potential and predicted high efficiency of bandwidth. One of the key challenges in VLC technology is the choice of devices which are going to be deployed VLC features. Smartphone rationally uses the most widely deployed visible light sensor i.e. image sensor in camera, which could be used to receive the intensity modulated data. Image sensor based VLC system would be the most deployable scenario but initially the capacity was not much attractive compared with photodetector based VLC system. Here, the spatial multiplexing is proposed in MIMO based VLC system to increase the system capacity by utilizing the property of spatial separation of optical light sources in smartphone's camera module. The active pixels of imaging plane act as the multiple receivers which could be able to use on MIMO spatial multiplexing to enhance the system performance.

Vulnerabilities and Attack Methods in Visible Light Communications Channel (가시광 통신 채널의 취약성 및 공격 방법)

  • Park, So-Hyun;Joo, Soyoung;Lee, Il-Gu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.10a
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    • pp.469-471
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    • 2021
  • As wireless communication technology advances to ensure high accuracy and safety at high speeds, research and development of Visible Light Communication (VLC) technology has been accelerated as an alternative to traditional radio frequency (RF) technology. As the radio spectrum of RF communication becomes more congested and demand for bandwidth continues to increase, VLCs that can use unlicensed frequency band are proposed as a solution. However, VLC channels have broadcasting characteristics that make them easily exposed to eavesdropping and jamming attacks, and are vulnerable to MITM (Man-In-The-Middle) due to their line of sight (LOS) propagation characteristics. These attacks on VLC channels compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of communications links and data, resulting in higher data retransmission rates, reducing throughput and increasing power consumption, resulting in lower data transmission efficiency. In this work, we model vulnerable VLC channels to analyze the impact of attacks and communications vulnerabilities by malicious jammers.

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Efficient Cross-Room Switch Mechanism for Indoor Room-Division-Multiplexing Based Visible Light Communication Network

  • Huang, Zhitong;Xiong, Jieqing;Li, Jianfeng;Ji, Yuefeng
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.351-356
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    • 2015
  • Visible light communication (VLC) is considered to be an attractive scheme to realize the broadband wireless communication for an indoor environment. We present a room division multiplexing (RDM) mechanism for an indoor multi-room VLC network, which utilizes the spatial position of the LED lamp in different rooms as a novel dimension of network resource for multiplexing, and thus the network capacity is increased. In such a network, the service interruption caused by user cross-room movement is an important problem, and we propose a double-area-positioning based cross-room switch solution. An experimental platform demonstrates the RDM-deployed VLC network, and validates the performance of the presented switch mechanism.

To improve the performance of BER using the 2-step interleaving for Visible Light Communication with LEDs (LED를 이용한 가시광 통신 시스템에서 2-step 인터리빙을 통한 BER 성능 향상)

  • Lee, Jonghyun;Seo, Hyoduck;Han, Doohee;Lee, Kyesan;Lee, Kyujin
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 2015
  • Visible Light Communication (VLC) is effective way to realize the light device and communication device using a Light Emitting Diode (LED) simultaneously. VLC has high security for Field Of View (FOV) communication area, also which is possible to transmit the high data rate using visible light. In VLC, transmitting the divided data by the RGB channels is higher data rate than transmitting the same data by RGB channels. However, it occurred the burst error by scattering and reflection of visible light which is impossible to restore that. To solve the problem, we proposed the 2-step interleaving scheme that high data rate and improve the performance of BER in VLC. The proposed system implements cyclic interleaving and convolutional interleaving that is able to be standardized the performance of RGB channels and improve the performance of BER using error correction.

LED transceivers with beehive-shaped reflector for visible light communication

  • Sohn, Kyung-Rak;Kim, Min-Soo
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.169-174
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    • 2014
  • This paper proposes a novel beehive-shaped reflector for application to light-emitting diode (LED) transceivers for illumination and bi-directional visible light communication (VLC). By using a diffuse propagation model extended to line-of-sight and direct signals, the distribution of illuminance and the path loss of the transceiver are investigated to evaluate the performance of the beehive-shaped reflector. To verify bi-directional communication, a VLC-based image capture system, comprising a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor and video processor unit, is demonstrated. Real-time images captured by the CMOS camera are successfully transmitted to the monitoring system via a free-space channel at a rate of 115.2 kbps.

Implementation of Transceiver for Optical Wireless Communication System (광무선통신 시스템의 송수신기 구현)

  • Lee, Sun Yui;Kim, Jin Young
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, a transceiver of VLC (Visible Light Communication) using LED white lighting has been implemented. The transmitted waveforms of LED and PD (Photo Diode) of the received signal are analyze to restore VLC data. Audio signal was successfully transmitted to demonstrate possibility and potential of optical wireless communication systems. Various modulation formats are considered to evaluate and compare performance in diverse channel conditions.

Novel Gain Control Scheme for VLC systems (VLC 시스템의 새로운 이득 제어)

  • Lee, Sun Yui;Jung, Kuk Hyun;Hwang, Yu Min;Lee, Sung Hun;Kim, Jin Young
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, a transceiver of VLC (Visible Light Communication) using LED white lighting has been implemented. We analyzed differences between conventional wireless communication and VLC with high-speed data transmission in a variety of environments, and confirmed symbols which passed through a channel using QAM. In order to get a high data rate, we found some variables that should be considered essentially though experiments. In addition, we set a bandwidth and found an optimal gain according to the distance between transmitter and receiver. We analyzed proposed system model through Labview and finally showed a system performance. The performance showed a 2Mbps QAM data rate in real visible light indoor channels.

Conflict Graph-based Downlink Resource Allocation and Scheduling for Indoor Visible Light Communications

  • Liu, Huanlin;Dai, Hongyue;Chen, Yong;Xia, Peijie
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2016
  • Visible Light Communication (VLC) using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) within the existing lighting infrastructure can reduce the implementation cost and may gain higher throughput than radio frequency (RF) or Infrared (IR) based wireless systems. Current indoor VLC systems may suffer from poor downlink resource allocation problems and small system throughput. To address these two issues, we propose an algorithm called a conflict graph scheduling (CGS) algorithm, including a conflict graph and a scheme that is based on the conflict graph. The conflict graph can ensure that users are able to transmit data without interference. The scheme considers the user fairness and system throughput, so that they both can get optimum values. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can guarantee significant improvement of system throughput under the premise of fairness.

Performance of pilot-based signal detection for digital IoT doorlock system (디지털 도어락 시스템을 위한 파일럿 기반 신호검출 성능)

  • Lee, Sun Yui;Hwang, Yu Min;Sun, Young Ghyu;Yoon, Sung Hoon;Kim, Jin Young
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.723-728
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    • 2018
  • This paper proposes a signal detection method for IoT door lock system which is a new application field of VLC (Visible Light Communication). This paper describes the signal detection technique for user recognition that needs to be overcome in order to apply VLC to door lock system which has a demand for new technology due to security issue. This system has security and high signal detection characteristics because it uses existing infrastructure to communicate with visible light. In order to detect the signal using FFT, the signal of the user who accesses the authentication channel based on the pilot signal is detected, and the performance of the false alarm probability and detection probability is shown in the channel model.

Novel Gain Control Scheme of Efficient Signal Detection Technique for Multiple Access VLC Systems (다중 접속 가시광 통신을 위한 신호 검출 기법의 게인 조절)

  • Lee, Sun Yui;Kim, Jin Young
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.32-36
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, a transceiver of VLC (Visible Light Communication) using LED white lighting has been implemented. We analyzed differences between conventional wireless communication and VLC with high-speed data transmission in a variety of environments, and confirmed symbols which passed through a channel using QAM. In order to get a high data rate, we found some variables that should be considered essentially though experiments. In addition, we set a bandwidth and found an optimal gain according to the distance between transmitter and receiver. We analyzed proposed system model through Labview and finally showed a system performance and to efficient data transmission and detection for VLC, we apply the orthogonal sequences to VLC system.