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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

In this paper, we propose a novel high dimensional constellation design scheme for visible light communication (VLC) systems employing red/green/blue light emitting diodes (RGB LEDs). It is in fact a generalized color shift keying (CSK)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Qian Gao , Chen Gong , Rui Wang , Zhengyuan Xu , Yingbo Hua

An air-to-ground free-space optical communication system has been designed and partially developed. The design covers both the communications between the airborne and the ground station, and the acquisition, tracking and pointing. A strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-31 Alberto Carrasco-Casado , Eva Oton , Ricardo Vergaz , Morten A. Geday , Jose M. Sanchez-Pena , Jose M. Oton

Visible-light communication (VLC) has emerged as a prominent technology to address the radio spectrum shortage. It is characterized by the unlicensed and unexploited high bandwidth, and provides the system with cost-effective advantages…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Alain R. Ndjiongue , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia A. Dobre , Ana G. Armada

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) 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

Differential spatial modulation (DSM) exploits the time dimension to facilitate the differential modulation, which can perfectly avoid the challenge in acquiring of heavily entangled channel state information of visible light communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Zichun Shi , Pu Miao , Peng Chen , Lei Xue , Li-Yang Zheng , Laiyuan Wang , Gaojie Chen

Free space optical communication systems with extremely high detector sensitivities are attractive for various applications with low size, weight and power requirements. For these practical systems, integrated hardware elements with small…

Visible light communication (VLC) technology was introduced as a key enabler for the next generation of wireless networks, mainly thanks to its simple and low-cost implementation. However, several challenges prohibit the realization of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Shimaa Naser , Lina Bariah , Sami Muhaidat , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri , Ernesto Damiani , Merouane Debbah , Paschalis C. Sofotasios

Beam divergence control is a key factor in maintaining reliable coverage in indoor optical wireless communication (OWC) systems as receiver height varies.Conventional systems employ fixed divergence angles, which result in significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Hossein Safi , Rizwana Ahmad , Iman Tavakkolnia , Harald Haas

The abstract discusses the significance of Visible Light Communication (VLC) as an efficient and cost-effective solution in the era of green technology. VLC not only provides illumination but also high-speed data transmission through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Vailet Hikmat Faraj Al Khattat , Siti Barirah Ahmad Anas , Abdu Saif

In this paper, we demonstrate a laser-based optical wireless communication (OWC) system employing a 940 nm single-mode (SM) vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) and a multi-mode (MM) fiber-coupled receiver, achieving a record data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Hossein Kazemi , Isaac N. O. Osahon , Nikolay Ledentsov , Ilya Titkov , Nikolay Ledentsov , Harald Haas

Optical Camera Communication (OCC) systems can take advantage of the row-by-row scanning process of rolling-shutter cameras to capture the fast variations of light intensity coming from Visible Light Communication (VLC) LED-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Xinyu Zhang , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Miguel Rêgo , Pedro Fonseca , Luís Nero Alves , Jyri Hämäläinen , Risto Wichman

The development of modern technology extends human presence beyond cislunar space and onto other planets, which presents an urgent need for high-capacity, long-distance and interplanetary communication. Communication using photons as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 Zeng-Quan Yan , Cheng-Qiu Hu , Zhan-Ming Li , Zhong-Yuan Li , Hang Zheng , Xian-Min Jin

This paper proposes a novel power-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) placement algorithm for indoor visible light communication (VLC). In the considered model, the LEDs can be designedly placed for high power efficiency while satisfying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Yang Yang , Zhiyu Zhu , Caili Guo , Chunyan Feng

In the non-line of sight (NLOS) ultraviolet (UV) scattering communication, the received signals exhibit the characteristics of discrete photoelectrons due to the extremely large path loss. We design and demonstrate an NLOS UV scattering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Guanchu Wang , Kun Wang , Chen Gong , Difan Zou , Zhimeng Jiang , Zhengyuan Xu

This paper proposes a joint communication and indoor positioning (JCP) system based on visible light communication (VLC) designed for high-precision indoor environments. The framework supports 2D and 3D positioning using received signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 A. Tarik Leblebici , Sumeyra Hassan , Erdal Panayirci , H. Vincent Poor

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is based on the dual use of the illumination infrastructure for wireless data communication. The major interest on this communication technology lies on its specific features to be a secure, cost-effective…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Antonio Costanzo , Valeria Loscri , Mauro Biagi

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…

Photovoltaic (PV) modules are recently employed in photovoltaic visible light communication (PVLC) for simultaneous energy harvesting and visible light communication. A PV-based receiver features large signal output, easy optical alignment,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Shuyan Chen , Hui Yu , Ni Zhao , Lian-Kuan Chen