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An overview of visible light communication systems

Networking and Internet Architecture 2015-12-14 v1
Authors: Taner Cevik , Serdar Yilmaz
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Abstract

Visible Light Communication (VLC) has gained great interest in the last decade due to the rapid developments in Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) fabrication. Efficiency, durability and long life span of LEDs make them a promising residential lighting equipment as well as an alternative cheap and fast data transfer equipment. Appliance of visual light in data communication by means of LEDs has been densely searched in academia. In this paper, we explore the fundamentals and challenges of indoor VLC systems. Basics of optical transmission such as transmitter, receiver, and links are investigated. Moreover, characteristics of channel models in indoor VLC systems are identified and theoretical details about channel modelling are presented in detail.

Keywords

visible light communication light emitting diodes indoor vlc systems optical transmission channel modeling transmitter receiver

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@article{arxiv.1512.03568,
  title  = {An overview of visible light communication systems},
  author = {Taner Cevik and Serdar Yilmaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03568},
  year   = {2015}
}

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