• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.428-429
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• 2010

LED는 친환경적 특성, 긴 수명, 우수한 효율 등의 장점이 있어 최근 기존의 백열전등 및 형광등을 대체하는 조명 수단으로 각광받고 있다. 또한, LED는 전기를 빛으로 변환하는 속도가 굉장히 빠른 반도체 소자로서 정보의 변조 및 인코딩이 가능하기 때문에 통신 소자로서 LED 활용이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 LED의 특성을 이용하여 기존 LED의 조명 기능을 활용하면서, 부가적인 근거리 무선 통신이 가능한 시스템을 제안한다. 기존의 전류원 구동 가시광 통신 시스템의 경우 출력 인덕터가 필요한 구조상의 한계로 인해 모든 종류의 컨버터에 가시광 통신용 LED 드라이버를 적용하기 어려운 문제점이 있지만, 제안 LED 드라이버는 출력 구조에 관계 없이 모든 종류의 컨버터에 적용할 수 있어 제안 회로의 응용이 다양한 장점이 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.430-431
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 가시광 통신을 위한 고효율 대용량 LED 드라이버를 제안한다. 기존 가시광 통신을 위한 LED 드라이버는 LED의 선형 구동방식으로 인한 전력 손실 및 발열이 매우 심각하여 대용량의 조명용 LED에 적용하기에는 현실적인 어려움이 뒤따랐다. 하지만 제안 회로는 LED의 스위칭 방식 구동을 통해 전력 변환 효율 및 발열이 크게 개선되어 대용량의 조명용 LED에 적용할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 효율 저하 없이 최대 10Mbps의 높은 데이터 전송 성능을 가지는 부가적인 무선통신 시스템을 구현할 수 있다. 최종적으로, 제안회로의 우수성을 검증하기 위하여 무선통신 오디오 시스템을 구현하여 고찰된 실험 결과를 제시한다.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.567-570
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• 2008

위치 및 지리정보를 활용하여 다양한 정보를 제공하는 위치기반서비스(LBS)가 새롭게 부상하고 있는 가운데 u-City/Town과 더불어 지하 실내 복합문화공간이 활발하게 건설되고 있다. 미래사회에서 얘기하는 물리적 공간의 지능화 유비쿼터스화를 위한 실내 환경에서의 위치기반서비스가 그 중요성을 더해가고 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 위치인식 기술과 더불어 국내 외 위치기반서비스 사업현황을 분석해보고, 실내 환경에 적용 가능한 u-복합문화공간 서비스 모델, 특히 실내 LED 인프라를 이용한 Indoor LBS 서비스를 체계적으로 분석하였다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.70-74
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• 2009

In this paper, We propose the visible light communication(VLC) link based on white light emitting diode (LED) and Photo detector(PD). The proposed architecture is demonstrated experimentally and its performance is verified through the experimental results of quality-factor(Q-factor) and eye pattern of 10Mb/s PRBS signal. The ambient light effect from a typical type fluorescent lamp source was also analyzed. when the distance between the LED and the PD is about 1m, error free wireless transmission of the LED was achieved up to 10Mb/s data rate. Under the condition with ambient light, low BER, data transmission of the VLC link is achieved up to 5Mb/s data rate at 1m. Also, when the PD is placed away from the center, low BER data transmission of the VLC link is achieved up to 1Mb/s at 10cm and 10Mb/s at 5cm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.79-85
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• 2016

Recently, visible light communication(VLC) is being actively researched as green wireless communication services are drawing attention. Currently, VLC mostly uses LED for transmission and PD(Photo Diode) for receiving. However, this kind of system has limited applications. Therefore, we design and propose in this paper, a LED-to-LED two way VLC system that doesn't use PD(Photo Diode). This system has the following features and contributions. First, this system uses just LED at both transmitter and receiver with analog switch, Second, this system support both one-way communication and two way communication together. One way communication can support multi-hop communication. The performance evaluation of the proposed system is conducted at a place with standard light. We test the success or failure of one way communication by changing distance and baud rate while test the success and failure of two way communication by changing distance. We expect that the proposed LED-to-LED system in this paper can be applied for various application fields.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.39-43
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose the multi-channel interference cancellation algorithm for visible light communication (VLC) in smart building. The VLC system is communication technology using visible rays that come out in Light Emitting Diode (LED) device. It has energy curtailment effect and possible to use in ubiquitous network service applications. When a large number of users communicate indoors, the performance can be reduced due to channel interference. To remove interference, at the first, the minimum mean square error (MMSE) scheme as interference cancellation methods used, and then the successive interference cancellation (SIC) is applied to obtain additional diversity gain and improve interference cancellation performance. Indoor VLC channel model is employed. The performance is evaluated in terms of bit error rate (BER). From the simulation results, it is confirmed that the proposed scheme has better BER performance compared to the previous systems. As a result, the proposed interference cancellation improves the signal quality of VLC systems by effectively removing the channel noise. The results of the paper can be applied to VLC for smart building and general communication systems.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

We perform simulation. It is that LED panels is fixed and moving the terminal with PD in order to analyze the performance of visible-light wireless communication system based on MIMO under variety of the interference environment. And, based on the technology MIMO, we analyzed whether the interference caused by external light to give what effect changes in the quality of the communication channel. The distortion due to time delay in channel transmission must be compensated by using the equalizer. Especially, use of equalizer is need absolutely as data rate becomes high speed. Therefore, in this paper, the system VLC, were analyzed BER performance using channel equalization.

• 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.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.514-520
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• 2015

This paper presents a novel shore-to-sea maritime data transmission system based on time-code diversity, using visible light in maritime environments to overcome the limitations of conventional maritime wireless communications. The proposed system is primarily comprised of existing LED-based lighthouses and maritime transceivers (marine beacons, buoys, etc.), and thus is considered cost-effective in terms of implementation. We first analyze maritime visible-light communications on the basis of the unique properties of a maritime environment, i.e. sea states (wave height, wind speed, etc.), plus atmospheric turbulence, using the Pierson-Moskowitz (PM) and JONSWAP (JS) spectrum models. It is found that the JS model outperforms the PM model, and that the coverage distance depends on the LED power and sea states. To combat maritime fading conditions that significantly degrade performance and coverage distance, we propose a time-code diversity (TCD) scheme in which the delayed versions of the original data are retransmitted using orthogonal Walsh codes. This TCD scheme is found to be superior, in that it offers three orders of magnitude in terms of BER performance, compared to a conventional (non-TCD) transmission scheme. The proposed scheme is robust and efficient in overcoming the effect of impairments present in maritime environments with a BER of approximately $10^{-5}$and a data rate of 100 Kbps at a distance of 1 km.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.532-539
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• 2018

Multiple LED arrays can be utilized in visible-light communication (VLC) to improve communication efficiency, while maintaining smart illumination functionality through dimming control. This paper proposes a modulation scheme called "Spatial Intensity Modulation" (SIM), where the effective number of turned-on LEDs is employed for data modulation and dimming control in VLC systems. Unlike the conventional pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM), symbol intensity levels are not determined by the amplitude levels of a VLC signal from each LED, but by counting the number of turned-on LEDs, illuminating with a single amplitude level. Because the intensity of a SIM symbol and the target dimming level are determined solely in the spatial domain, the problems of conventional PAM-based VLC and related MIMO VLC schemes, such as unstable dimming control, non uniform illumination functionality, and burdens of channel prediction, can be solved. By varying the number and formation of turned-on LEDs around the target dimming level in time, the proposed SIM scheme guarantees homogeneous illumination over a target area. An analysis of the dimming capacity, which is the achievable communication rate under the target dimming level in VLC, is provided by deriving the turn-on probability to maximize the entropy of the SIM-based VLC system. In addition, a practical design of dimmable SIM scheme applying the multilevel inverse source coding (MISC) method is proposed. The simulation results under a range of parameters provide baseline data to verify the performance of the proposed dimmable SIM scheme and applications in real systems.