• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.220-224
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• 2012

We report an experimental demonstration of $4{\times}4$ multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless visible light communications (VLC) using a charge-coupled device image sensor receiver instead of a photodiode receiver. An image sensor is a kind of digital camera, which is used in most mobile devices such as smart phones or laptop computers and a promising commercial candidate for a VLC receiver. The transmission distance of the experimental result is over 10 m, enough for most indoor communication applications. We expect that the MIMO VLC technique based on image sensor receivers can be widely used with the development of high-speed image sensors.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.74-79
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• 2015

A novel color clustered optical RGB multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is presented. As visible light can be divided into three primary regions of red, green and blue, data can be modulated and transmitted separately using these three color clusters. Each color cluster comprised of 30 RGB LEDs is modulated using on-off-keying (OOK), and selection combining is performed at the receiver, producing a diversity effect within that color cluster. The simulations demonstrate that the proposed RGB MIMO VLC system provides high performance via a relatively simple design of MIMO. Moreover, the proposed system ensures sufficient illumination from LEDs and offers extended distance if more LEDs are applied.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.50-60
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• 2011

Visible light communication(VLC) is one type of short-range, optical, and wireless communication system utilizing light emitting diode(LED) and laser diode(LD) as optical source. In a VLC system, visible light is used as a transmission medium and used to illuminate. Using VLC has a lot of advantages: it is harmless to human body; it transmits with high power, and it has excellent security, a high data rate, and a license free frequency band. With such a unique blend of communication and illumination in one system, the most common application would be an indoor environment. We aim at reviewing key issues in VLC network such as : FOV(field of view), priority MAC, cooperative MAC, link switching, LED-ID technique, cell site diversity, and link recovery.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.459-465
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• 2014

Visible light communications (VLC) using the intensity modulation of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) provides a new communication medium to overcome the shortage of radio spectrum, and allows reuse of LED lighting infrastructures. Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) was introduced to VLC for its merits in mitigating the fading effects resulting from delay spread, and in avoiding low-frequency ambient interference. Noise and clipping are two major factors that degrade the performance of OFDM in VLC. A larger signal easily overcomes noise, but experiences impairment by clipping. Therefore, degradation due to clipping has a trade-off relationship with that due to noise, depending on the signal amplitude of OFDM. In this paper, the optimal signal amplitude in the trade-off is obtained by simulation when the dimming and LED intensity are given. The former indicates a user's requirement for lighting, and the latter represents the channel quality. The required LED intensity-to-noise ratio, as the channel quality that guarantees dimming as well as an adequate bit-error rate (BER), is also discussed.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38C권8호
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• pp.706-712
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 간접 조명 환경에서 가시광(VLC : Visible Light Communication) 통신을 위한 채널 특성을 모델링하였다. 간접 조명은 직사 조도가 없이 모든 광속이 천정 및 벽을 반사한 후에 실내 바닥 면에 고르게 도달하는 방식이며, 광원에서 출발한 광 입자(Photon)는 간접경로(NLOS : None Line of Sight)를 통하여 수신부(PD, Photodiode)에 도달한다. 실내 간접 조명 환경으로서 가로(6m), 세로(4m), 높이(2.2m) 크기의 방(room)을 가정하였으며, 4개의 LED(Light Emitting Diode) 간접 조명을 2m 높이에 위치하여 벽과 천정을 향하여 빛을 비추도록 하였다. 바닥으로부터 50cm 위에 위치한 PD에서 수신 전력의 크기와 지연 수신된 신호를 통하여 채널 특성을 추출하였다. 도출된 채널은 BPSK 기반 통신 시뮬레이션을 통해서 그 유효성을 입증하였다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.219-226
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• 2021

LED-to-LED VLC(: Visible Light Communications) 기술은 기존의 VLC 기술과 달리 송신부와 수신부를 모두 LED로 사용한 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 Micro LED를 송신부로 사용한 Micro LED-to-LED VLC 기술을 연구하였다. Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, White 색상의 송/수신부 LED에 따라 통신 시스템의 상승 시간과 신호 대 잡음비를 측정하여 채널 용량을 비교하였다. 본 실험 결과에 따르면, 송신부 Micro LED가 Blue이고 수신부 LED가 Green일 때에 통신 시스템 중에서 가장 좋은 결과인 125 kbps의 채널 용량을 갖는 것을 확인하였다. 또한, OFDM(: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 신호를 사용하여 비트 에러율을 확인한 결과, 250 kbps까지는 통신이 가능함을 실험적으로 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.677-684
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• 2015

Recently, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) was applied to VLC systems owing to its high rate capability. On the other hand, a real-valued unipolar OFDM signal for VLC significantly reduces bandwidth efficiency. For practical implementation, channel estimation is required for data demodulation, which causes a further decrease in spectral efficiency. In addition, the large fluctuation of an OFDM signal results in poor illumination quality, such as chromaticity changes. This paper proposes a spectrally efficient method based on a hidden-pilot-aided precoding technology for VLC with less flickering than a conventional OFDM-based method. This approach can obtain channel information without any loss of bandwidth efficiency while ensuring illumination quality by reducing the flickering effect of an OFDM-based VLC. The simulation results show that the proposed method provides a 6.4% gain in bandwidth efficiency with a 4% reduction in flicker compared to a conventional OFDM-based method.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.203-209
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• 2012

Visible light communications (VLC) use modern solid-state light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to broadcast information. Emerging white-light LEDs allow the combination of lighting and optical wireless communication in one optical source. In this paper, a new LED lighting design using one-chip-type white LEDs is proposed for efficient illumination and optical wireless communications under the existence of several obstacles. Lighting and communication performance are analyzed to show the effectiveness of the proposed LED lighting. Specifically, the signal-to-noise ratio considering intersymbol interference and the bit-error rate of variable pulse position modulation (VPPM) with dimming control are considered.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권10B호
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• pp.1240-1245
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 실내 환경에서 LED(Light Emitting Diode)를 이용한 가시광 통신(VLC : Visible Light Communication) 채널의 특성을 모델링 및 분석하였다. LED에서 방사된 광 입자(Photon)의 일부는 직접(LOS : Line Of Sight) 또는 반사(NLOS : None Line Of Sight)의 경로를 거쳐서 PD(PhotoDiode)에 도달하며, 이것은 수신 부에서 시간 지연(delay profile)과 감쇠(attenuation)를 가진 다중 수신 신호 특성을 나타낸다. 가로, 세로, 높이의 크기가 20*8*2.3m로 가정된 실내 환경에서 2개의 LED와 3개의 PD를 사용하여, 각 PD에서 직접파, 반사파에 의한 채널 특성을 컴퓨터 모의실험하고 분석하였다. 채널 모델별 특성은 BPSK 기반의 통신 모의실험을 통하여 그 유용성을 입증하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.595-601
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• 2015

These days, research related to Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology is being widely considered. ITS is inevitable for future transportation systems to reduce accidents, congestion, and offer a smooth flow of traffic. The use of Visible Light Communication (VLC) in ITS systems has been considered widely because of its EMC/EMI free and LED infrastructure reusable properties. Among the VLC schemes, this study analyzed the performance of the Color Shift Keying (CSK) scheme under a Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) downlink scenario to verify the capability of CSK as a communication tool for ITS. By modeling daylight noise using the modified Blackbody radiation model, this study examined the performance of V2I VLC under daytime conditions. The relationship between BER, the communication distance, and the amount of ambient-light noises under the pre-described V2I scenario were determined by simulations.