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Visible light communication (VLC) is an emerging technique that uses light-emitting diodes (LED) to combine communication and illumination. It is considered as a promising scheme for indoor wireless communication that can be deployed at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-09-19 Houssem Sifaou , Ki-Hong Park , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Visible light positioning (VLP) is widely believed to be a cost-effective answer to the growing demanded for robot indoor positioning. Considering that some extreme environments require robot to be equipped with a precise and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hongyun Xie , Linyi Huang , Wenfei Wu

The directionality of optical signals provides an opportunity for efficient space reuse of optical links in visible light communication (VLC). Space reuse in VLC can enable multiple access communication from multiple light emitting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 MD Rashed Rahman , Ashwin Ashok

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) systems are promising candidates for future indoor access and peer-to-peer networks. The performance of these systems, however, is vulnerable to the line of sight (LOS) link blockage due to objects inside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Hamid Hosseinianfar , Maite Brandt-Pearce

This paper presents an approach for visible light communication-based indoor positioning using compressed sensing. We consider a large number of light emitting diodes (LEDs) simultaneously transmitting their positional information and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Kristina Gligoric , Manisha Ajmani , Dejan Vukobratovic , Sinan Sinanovic

This paper presents LIPS, a Light Intensity based Positioning System for indoor environments. The system uses off-the-shelf LED lamps as signal sources, and uses light sensors as signal receivers. The design is inspired by the observation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Bo Xie , Guang Tan , Yunhuai Liu , Mingming Lu , Kongyang Chen , Tian He

In this paper, we propose a novel visible light communication (VLC) assisted Perspective-fourLine algorithm (V-P4L) for practical indoor localization. The basic idea of V-P4L is to joint VLC and computer vision to achieve high accuracy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Lin Bai

This paper presents a novel indoor visible light positioning (VLP) system utilising one vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser installed at the ceiling centre of a space. The system offers three-dimensional localisation by sweeping through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yicheng Dong , Rashid Iqbal , Julien Le Kernec , Hanaa Abumarshoud

The integration of Optical Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (OIRSs) into Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems is gaining momentum as a valid alternative to RF technologies, harnessing the existing lighting infrastructures and the vast…

Collision avoidance and platooning applications require vehicle localization at cm-level accuracy and at least 50 Hz rate for full autonomy. The RADAR/LIDAR and camera based methods currently used for vehicle localization do not satisfy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-01 Burak Soner , Sinem Coleri

In this paper, we present the first indoor light-based detection and localization system that builds on concepts from radio detection and ranging (radar) making use of the expected growth in the use and adoption of visible light…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-29 Aubida A. Al-Hameed , Safwan Hafeedh Younus , Ahmed Taha Hussein , Mohammed T. Alresheedi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

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

Visible light communications (VLC) is a promising technology to address the spectrum crunch problem in radio frequency (RF) networks. A major advantage of VLC networks is that they can use the existing lighting infrastructure in indoor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Yusuf Said Eroglu , Ismail Guvenc , Alphan Sahin , Yavuz Yapici , Nezih Pala , Murat Yuksel

Visible light positioning (VLP) technology is a promising technique as it can provide high accuracy positioning based on the existing lighting infrastructure. However, existing approaches often require dense lighting distributions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Weipeng Guan , Patrick Yue

VLC is attracting a lot of attention as an emerging potential technology for deployment in next generation indoor wireless networks. Use of efficient link switching scheme among VLC access points is critical in indoor environment to provide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-02 Sumita Mishra , Sachin Kumar , Shivani Singh , Pallavi Asthana , Nidhi Mathur

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

Camera-based visible light positioning (VLP) is a promising technique for accurate and low-cost indoor camera pose estimation (CPE). To reduce the number of required light-emitting diodes (LEDs), advanced methods commonly exploit LED shape…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Wenxuan Pan , Yang Yang , Dong Wei , Zhiyu Zhu , Jintao Wang , Huan Wu , Yao Nie

Visible Light Positioning (VLP) has emerged as a promising technology capable of delivering indoor localization with high accuracy. In VLP systems that use Photodiodes (PDs) as light receivers, the Received Signal Strength (RSS) is affected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xiao Sun , Yuan Zhuang , Xiansheng Yang , Jianzhu Huai , Tianming Huang , Daquan Feng

In this paper, we propose a novel indoor localization scheme that exploits ubiquitous visible lights, which are necessarily and densely deployed in almost all indoor environments. We unveil two phenomena of lights available for positioning:…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Yiqing Hu , Yan Xiong , Wenchao Huang , Xiang-Yang Li , Yanan Zhang , Xufei Mao , Panlong Yang , Caimei Wang