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This paper proposes an indoor visible light communication (VLC) system with multiple transmitters and receivers. Due to diffusivity of LED light beams, photodiode receive signals from many directions. We use one concave and one convex lens…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Jiaqi Wei , Chen Gong , Nuo Huang , Zhengyuan Xu

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

In this paper, we introduce a new uplink visible light indoor positioning system that estimates the position of the users in the network-side of a visible light communications (VLC) system. This technique takes advantage of the diffuse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Hamid Hosseinianfar , Mohammad Noshad , Maite Brandt-Pearce

Localizing smartphones in indoor environments offers excellent opportunities for e-commerce. In this paper, we propose a localization technique for smartphones in indoor environments. This technique can calculate the coordinates of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-10 Md. Tanvir Hossan , Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Amirul Islam , Yeong Min Jang

In next-generation wireless systems, providing location-based mobile computing services for energy-neutral devices has become a crucial objective for the provision of sustainable Internet of Things (IoT). Visible light positioning (VLP) has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Boxuan Xie , Lauri Mela , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Yu Bai , Zehui Xiong , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , Riku Jäntti

Visible Light Positioning (VLP) has emerged as a promising technology for next-generation indoor positioning systems (IPS), particularly within the scope of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. Its attractiveness stems from leveraging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Morteza Alijani , Wout Joseph , David Plets

We present a complete Visible Light Communications (VLC) transceiver system consisting of low-cost Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components. In particular, we show that COTS IEEE 802.11n (WiFi) devices can be used so that the physical and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Piotr Gawłowicz , Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo , Anatolij Zubow

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

Visible light communication (VLC) has become a promising research topic in recent years, and finds its wide applications in indoor environments. Particularly, for location based services (LBS), visible light also provides a practical…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-18 Wenjun Gu , Mohammadreza A. Kashani , Mohsen Kavehrad

Visible light communications (VLC) that use the infrastructure of the indoor illumination system have been envisioned as a compact, safe, and green alternative to WiFi for the downlink of an indoor wireless mobile communication system.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Mohammad Noshad , Maite Brandt-Pearce

In this paper, we investigate an integrated visible light positioning and communication (VLPC) system with a single LED-lamp. First, by leveraging the fact that the VLC channel model is a function of the receiver's location, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shuai Ma , Ruixin Yang , Bing Li , Yongyan Chen , Hang Li , Youlong Wu , Majid Safari , Shiyin Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In the modern era of radio frequency (RF) spectrum crunch, visible light communication (VLC) is a recent and promising alternative technology that operates at the visible light spectrum. Thanks to its unlicensed and large bandwidth, VLC can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Sifat Ibne Mushfique , Prabath Palathingal , Yusuf Said Eroglu , Murat Yuksel , Ismail Guvenc , Nezih Pala

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a current technology which allows data to be transmitted by modulating information onto a light source. It has many advantages over traditional radio frequency communication and up to 10,000 times larger…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Shamin Achari , Alice Yi Yang , James Goodhead , Brendon Swanepoel , Ling Cheng

Optical wireless technology has the potential to complement the wireless access services provided so far over RF. Apart from the abundant unlicensed bandwidth available for ultra-dense deployments over optical wireless bands, optical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Mohsen Abedi , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Risto Wichman

Computer vision is a rapidly evolving field, giving rise to powerful new tools and techniques in digital forensic investigation, and shows great promise for novel digital forensic applications. One such application, indoor multimedia…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kanwal Aftab , Graham Adams , Mark Scanlon

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

Visible light communications (VLC) in indoor environments suffer from the limited bandwidth of LEDs as well as from the inter-symbol interference (ISI) imposed by multipath. In this work, transmission schemes to improve the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mohammad Noshad , Maite Brandt-Pearce

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) builds upon the dual use of existing lighting infrastructure for wireless data transmission. VLC has recently gained interest as cost-effective, secure, and energy-efficient wireless access technology…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-15 Saad Al-Ahmadi , Omar Maraqa , Murat Uysal , Sadiq M. Sait

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