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Rapidly increasing demand for high speed data is pushing 6G wireless networks to support larger link scales, lower latency, and higher spectral efficiency. Visible light communications (VLC) is a strong complement to radio frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Xuesong Wang

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a rapidly growing technology which can supplement the current radio frequency (RF) based wireless communication systems. VLC can play a huge part in solving the ever-increasing problem of spectrum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sifat Ibne Mushfique , Ahmad Alsharoa , Murat Yuksel

This paper reports a detailed experimental characterization of optical performances of Visible Light Communication (VLC) system using a real traffic light for ultra-low latency, infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) communications for intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 M. Seminara , T. Nawaz , S. Caputo , L. Mucchi , J. Catani

The proliferation of mobile Internet and connected devices, offering a variety of services at different levels of performance, represents a major challenge for the fifth generation wireless networks and beyond. This requires a paradigm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Hanaa Marshoud , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Sajjad Hussain , Muhammad Ali Imran , Bayan S. Sharif

Visible light communications (VLC) are motivated by the radio-frequency (RF) spectrum crunch and fast-growing solid-state lighting technology. VLC relies on white light emitting diodes (LEDs) to provide communication and illumination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Zhenhua Yu , Arthur J. Redfern , G. Tong Zhou

Free space optical communication techniques have been the subject of numerous investigations in recent years, with multiple missions expected to fly in the near future. Existing methods require high pointing accuracies, drastically driving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Sihao Huang , Haowen Lin

One of the main aims of indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems is to deliver a high data rate service in single user and in multiuser scenarios. A key obstacle is the ability of the indoor VLC channel to support high data rates in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Safwan Hafeedh Younus , Aubida A. Al-Hameed , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Visible Light Communication (VLC) technology using light emitting diodes (LEDs) has been gaining increasing attention in recent years as it is appealing for a wide range of applications such as indoor positioning. Orthogonal frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Mohammadreza Aminikashani , Wenjun Gu , Mohsen Kavehrad

This study explores the use of Visible Light Communication (VLC) in Collective Perception (CP), a technology that enables vehicles and infrastructure to share sensor information to help reduce traffic accidents. Recent advances in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Kosuke Nakano , Shan Lu , Takaya Yamazato

Visible light communication (VLC) is an emerging technology and considered as an alternative to overcome some of the disadvantages of radio frequency communication technology in an indoor environment. However, the line of sight nature of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 M. A. N. Perera , N. G. K. R. Wijewardhana , A. A. D. T Nissanka , S. A. H. A. Suraweera , G. M. R. I. Godaliyadda

This paper investigates the physical-layer security for an indoor visible light communication (VLC) network consisting of a transmitter, a legitimate receiver and an eavesdropper. Both the main channel and the wiretapping channel have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jin-Yuan Wang , Cheng Liu , Jun-Bo Wang , Yongpeng Wu , Min Lin , Julian Cheng

In this work, we investigate the performance of indoor visible light communication (VLC) networks based on power domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for mobile devices, where multiple legitimate users are equipped with photodiodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Tianji Shen , Vamoua Yachongka , Yuto Hama , Hideki Ochiai

Visible light communication (VLC) using light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) has been a popular research area recently. VLC can provide a practical solution for indoor positioning. In this paper, the impact of multipath reflections on indoor VLC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Wenjun Gu , Mohammadreza Aminikashani , Mohsen Kavehrad

Visible light communication (VLC) has wide unlicensed bandwidth, enables communication in radio frequency (RF) sensitive environments, realizes energy-efficient data transmission, and has the potential to boost the capacity of wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Sihua Shao , Abdallah Khreishah , Moussa Ayyash , Michael B. Rahaim , Hany Elgala , Volker Jungnickel , Dominic Schulz , Thomas D. C. Little

The achievable data rate in indoor wireless systems that employ visible light communication (VLC) can be limited by multipath propagation. Here, we use computer generated holograms (CGHs) in VLC system design to improve the achievable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-18 Safwan Hafeedh Younus , Ahmed Taha Hussein , Mohammed T. Alresheedi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

This article presents a novel approach of using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in the transmitter of indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems to enhance data rate uniformity and maintain adequate illumination. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Sylvester Aboagye , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Alain R. Ndjiongue , Octavia A. Dobre , Hyundong Shin

The visible light communication (VLC) technology has attracted much attention in the research of the sixth generation (6G) communication systems. In this paper, a novel three dimensional (3D) space-time-frequency non-stationary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Xiuming Zhu , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Jie Huang , Ming Chen , Harald Haas

Visible light communication (VLC) is an optical wireless communication technology that is considered a promising solution for high-speed indoor connectivity. Unlike the case in conventional radio-frequency wireless systems, the VLC channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-18 Mohamed Amine Arfaoui , Ali Ghrayeb , Chadi Assi

Visible Light Communication (VLC) provides an energy-efficient wireless solution by using existing LED-based illumination for high-speed data transmissions. Although solar cells offer the advantage of simultaneous energy harvesting and data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yanxiang Wang , Yihe Yan , Jiawei Hu , Cheng Jiang , Brano Kusy , Ashraf Uddin , Mahbub Hassan , Wen Hu

Future space missions will be driven by factors such as the need for reduced cost of spacecraft without diminished performance, new services and capabilities including reconfigurability, autonomous operations, target observation with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-06 David Amanor , William Edmonson , Fatemeh Afghah