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Visible Light Communication (VLC) offers a promising solution to satisfy the increasing demand for wireless data. However, link blockages remain a significant challenge. This paper addresses this issue by investigating the combined use of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Borja Genoves Guzman , Maximo Morales-Cespedes , Ana Garcia Armada , Maite Brandt-Pearce

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of our latest OpenVLC1.3 platform to perform research in Visible Light Communication Systems. We retain the advantages of the previous versions such as TCP/IP layers support, software…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Ander Galisteo , Diego Juara , Domenico Giustiniano

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…

We experimentally demonstrate a software-defined 2x2 MIMO VLC system employing link adaptation of spatial multiplexing and diversity. The average error-free spectral efficiency of 12 b/s/Hz is achieved over 2 meters indoor transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Peng Deng , Mohsen Kavehrad

This paper presents an indoor visible light communication (VLC) system in conjunction with an imaging receiver with parallel data transmission (spatial multiplexing) to decrease the effects of inter-symbol interference (ISI). To distinguish…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-06 Safwan Hafeedh Younus , Aubida A. Al-Hameed , Ahmed Taha Hussein , Mohammed T. Alresheedi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Visible Light Communication (VLC) provides an energy-efficient wireless solution by using existing LED-based illumination for high-speed data transmissions. Although solar cells offer the advantage of simultaneous energy harvesting and data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yanxiang Wang , Yihe Yan , Jiawei Hu , Cheng Jiang , Brano Kusy , Ashraf Uddin , Mahbub Hassan , Wen Hu

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

This paper investigates a dual-hop joint visible light communication (VLC) and backscatter communication (BC) relaying framework under the finite blocklength (FBL) constraint, aiming at energy-neutral Ambient Internet of Things (A-IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Boxuan Xie , Lauri Mela , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jiacheng Wang , Kalle Ruttik , Riku Jäntti

Providing high data rates is one of the big concerns in visible light communication (VLC) systems. This paper introduces a data centre design that use a VLC system for downlink communication. In this work, RYGB laser diodes (LD) are used as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-30 Osama Zwaid Alsulami , Mohamed O. I. Musa , Mohammed T. Alresheedi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

This paper shows experimental systems using R/G/B LEDs as both the emitters and narrowband filterless photodetectors to realize multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) visible light communications. Among 9 tested color-pair links from R/G/B…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Shangbin Li , Boyang Huang , Zhengyuan Xu

Visible light communication (VLC) backscatter has been proposed as a wireless access option for Internet of Things (IoT). However, the throughput of the state-of-the-art VLC backscatter is limited by simple single-carrier pulsed modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Sihua Shao , Abdallah Khreishah , Hany Elgala

This study explores the use of Visible Light Communication (VLC) in Collective Perception (CP), a technology that enables vehicles and infrastructure to share sensor information to help reduce traffic accidents. Recent advances in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Kosuke Nakano , 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

Visible light communication (VLC) is nowadays envisaged as a promising technology to enable new classes of services in intelligent transportation systems ranging, e.g., from assisted driving to autonomous vehicles. The assessment of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Stefano Caputo , Lorenzo Mucchi , Francesco Saverio Cataliotti , Marco Seminara , Tassadaq Nawaz , Jacopo Catani

Visible Light Communication~(VLC) systems provide not only illumination and data communication, but also indoor monitoring services if the effect that different events create on the received optical signal is properly tracked. For this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Mehmet C. Ilter , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jyri Hämäläinen , Risto Wichman

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is one the most promising enabling technology for future 6G networks to overcome Radio-Frequency (RF)-based communication limitations thanks to a broader bandwidth, higher data rate, and greater efficiency.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Simone Soderi , Alessandro Brighente , Federico Turrin , Mauro Conti

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

With the capability of reconfiguring the wireless electromagnetic environment, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new paradigm for designing future wireless communication systems. In this paper, we consider optical IRS for improving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Shiyuan Sun , Fang Yang , Jian Song , Rui Zhang

In the context of an increasing interest toward reducing the number of traffic accidents and of associated victims, communication-based vehicle safety applications have emerged as one of the best solutions to enhance road safety. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Hamed Alizadeh Ghazijahani

The present contribution proposes a general framework for the energy efficiency analysis of a hybrid visible light communication (VLC) and Radio Frequency (RF) wireless system, in which both VLC and RF subsystems utilize nonorthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ahmed Al Hammadi , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri , Hany Elgala