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Visible Light Communication (VLC) is seen as a complementary wireless technology to Radio Frequency (RF). However, VLC is very sensitive to the signal blockage and suffers from shadowing due to the high directionality of the optical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Piotr Gawłowicz , Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo , Anatolij Zubow

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

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

Visible light communication (VLC) based localization is a potential candidate for wide range indoor localization applications. In this paper, we propose a VLC architecture based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-31 Luis C. Mathias , Leonimer F. de Melo , Taufik Abrao

Visible Light Communication (VLC) 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 division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Mohammadreza Aminikashani , Wenjun Gu , Mohsen Kavehrad

Visible light communication (VLC) is envisioned as a core component of future wireless communication networks due to, among others, the huge unlicensed bandwidth it offers and the fact that it does not cause any interference to existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Sylvester Aboagye , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia A. Dobre , H. Vincent Poor

Visible light communication (VLC), which uses LEDs for both illumination and communication purposes, has recently emerged as either an alternative or a support system for radio frequency (RF) communication. VLC channel inside a room is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Cenk Albayrak , Kadir Turk , Emin Tugcu , Cemaleddin Simsek , Ayhan Yazgan

Visible light communication (VLC) has the potential to supplement the growing demand for wireless connectivity. In order to realise the full potential of VLC, channel models are required Discrete channel models based on semi-hidden Markov…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-20 Daniel G. Holmes , Ling Cheng , Mulundumina Shimaponda-Nawa , Ayokunle D. Familua , Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz

The massive deployment of light-emitting diode (LED) lightning infrastructure has opened the opportunity to reuse it as visible light communication (VLC) to leverage the current RF spectrum crisis in indoor scenarios. One of the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Francisco J. Escribano , José Sáez-Landete , Alexandre Wagemakers

In this paper, we consider a cognitive indoor visible light communications (VLC) system, comprised of multiple access points serving primary and secondary users through the orthogonal frequency division multiple access method. A cognitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Marwan Hammouda , Jürgen Peissig , Anna Maria Vegni

Despite the promising high-data rate features of visible light communications (VLC), they still suffer from unbalanced services due to blockages and channel fluctuation among users. This paper introduces and evaluates a new transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Mohanad Obeed , Hayssam Dahrouj , Anas M. Salhab , Salam A. Zummo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We present a statistical analysis of a mixed radio-frequency (RF)-visible light communications (VLC) relaying system, where outdoor millimeter wave based RF links are utilized to provide backhaul connectivity for indoor VLC broadcasting.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Milica I. Petkovic , Aleksandra Cvetkovic , Milan Narandzic , Dejan Vukobratovic

The ever-increasing demand for high data-rate applications and the proliferation of connected devices pose several theoretical and technological challenges for the fifth generation (5G) networks and beyond. Among others, this includes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Rangeet Mitra , Paschalis. C. Sofotasios , Vimal Bhatia , Sami Muhaidat

Hybrid Radio Frequency/ Visible Light Communication (RF/VLC) systems have been recognized as effective means to enhance data rate. So far the study of data rate has been limited to downlink communications. In this letter, we study the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Shivanshu Shrivastava

Wireless communications using light waves are called visible light communication. A technique called Physical-layer Network coding allows several users to communicate simultaneously over the same channel in a distributed space-time Coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-03 Abdellah Tahenni , Fatiha Merazka

The new generation of LED-based illuminating infrastructures has enabled a "dual-paradigm" where LEDs are used for both illumination and communication purposes. The ubiquity of lighting makes visible light communication (VLC) well suited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Angli Liu , Jiangtao Li , Guobin Shen , Chao Sun , Liqun Li , Feng Zhao

Event cameras offer high temporal resolution, low latency, and wide dynamic range, making them promising receivers for visible light communication (VLC) in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) applications. This work presents an event-camera-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ryota Soga , Tsukasa Shimizu , Shintaro Shiba , Quan Kong , Shan Lu , Takaya Yamazato

To design an efficient interference management and multiple access scheme for visible light communication (VLC) network, this letter leverages the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), which has received significant attention in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Xiaoke Zhang , Qian Gao , Chen Gong , Zhengyuan Xu

Light can be used for wireless information transmission apart from illumination; that is the key idea behind visible-light communication (VLC), one of the disruptive technologies of our days. It combines remarkably high data rates due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Constantinos Valagiannopoulos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Vassilios Kovanis

This paper centers around a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) visible light communication (VLC) system, where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) benefits from a light emitting diode (LED) array to serve photo-diode (PD)-equipped users for…