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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

Visible light communication (VLC) enables access to huge unlicensed bandwidth, a higher security level, and no radio frequency interference. With these advantages, VLC emerges as a complementary solution to radio frequency communications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Alain R. Ndjiongue , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia A. Dobre , Harald Haas

The world is often stricken by catastrophic disasters. On-demand drone-mounted visible light communication (VLC) networks are suitable for monitoring disaster-stricken areas for leveraging disaster-response operations. The concept of an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yukito Onodera , Hiroki Takano , Daisuke Hisano , Yu Nakayama

In this paper the secure performance for the visible light communication (VLC) system with multiple eavesdroppers is studied. By considering the practical amplitude constraint instead of an average power constraint in the VLC system, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Xiaodong Liu , Yuhao Wang , Fuhui Zhou , Zhenyu Deng , Rose Qingyang Hu

In this paper, an energy-efficient precoding scheme is designed for multi-user visible light communication (VLC) systems in the context of physical layer security, where users' messages are kept mutually confidential. The design problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Son T. Duong , Thanh V. Pham , Chuyen T. Nguyen , Anh T. Pham

Visible light communication (VLC) systems can provide illumination and communication simultaneously via light emitting diodes (LEDs). Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms transmitted in a VLC system will have high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Z. Yu , R. J. Baxley , G. T. Zhou

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

In this communication revolution era, visible light communication (VLC) is the optimum efficacious answer to the increased request for high-speed data transmission with reduced cost, besides the illumination. This technology is considered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Vailet Hikmat Faraj Al Khattat , Siti Barirah Ahmad Anas , Abdu Saif

In recent years, the application potential of visible light communication (VLC) technology as an alternative and supplement to radio frequency (RF) technology has attracted people's attention. The study of the underlying VLC channel is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Qingshan Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Jian Sun , Wensheng Zhang , Qiuming Zhu

Visible light communication (VLC) is a promising solution to satisfy the extreme demands of emerging applications. VLC offers bandwidth that is orders of magnitude higher than what is offered by the radio spectrum, hence making best use of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Abdelrahman S. Elgamal , Osama Z. Aletri , Barzan A. Yosuf , Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

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

Visible light positioning (VLP) is an accurate indoor positioning technology that uses luminaires as transmitters. In particular, circular luminaires are a common source type for VLP, that are typically treated only as point sources for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Zhiyu Zhu , Caili Guo , Rongzhen Bao , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Yang Yang

We propose Vision-Language Feature-based Multimodal Semantic Communication (VLF-MSC), a unified system that transmits a single compact vision-language representation to support both image and text generation at the receiver. Unlike existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Gwangyeon Ahn , Jiwan Seo , Joonhyuk Kang

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

Light-to-Camera Communications (LCC) have emerged as a new wireless communication technology with great potential to benefit a broad range of applications. However, the existing LCC systems either require cameras directly facing to the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Fan Yang , Shining Li , Zhe Yang , Tao Gu , Cheng Qian

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

This paper contemplates a relay-assisted visible light communication (VLC) system, where the light source (Table lamp) acts as a relay node and cooperates with the main light source. Following the IEEE 802.15.7r1 VLC reference channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-11 L Bhargava Kumar , Ramavath Prasad Naik , Datta Choudhari , Prabu Krishnan , Goutham Simha G D , Jagadeesh V K

Accurate indoor localization is crucial in industrial environments. Visible Light Communication (VLC) has emerged as a promising solution, offering high accuracy, energy efficiency, and minimal electromagnetic interference. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Masood Jan , Wafa Njima , Xun Zhang , Alexander Artemenko

Integrating visible light communication (VLC) and radio-frequency (RF) networks can improve the performance of communication systems in terms of coverage and data rates. However, adding RF links to VLC networks weakens the secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Anas M. Salhab , Salam A. Zummo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Providing uplink high data rate is one of the big concerns in visible light communication (VLC) systems. This paper introduces an uplink VLC system based on an infrared transmitter with beam steering to provide high data rates. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Osama Zwaid Alsulami , Mohammed T. Alresheedi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani