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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

In this work, a directional modulation-based technique is devised to enhance the security of a multi-antenna wireless communication system employing M-PSK modulation to convey information. The directional modulation method operates by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Ashkan Kalantari , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Sina Maleki , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In this work, we propose a new communication system for illuminated areas, indoors and outdoors. Light sources in our environments -such as light bulbs or even the sun- are our signal emitters, but we do not modulate data at the light…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Qing Wang , Marco Zuniga , Domenico Giustiniano

Visible light communication (VLC) is expected to be a key component of future wireless networks due to its abundant license-free spectrum, inherent high-level security, and the already deployed lighting infrastructure. VLC performance,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Sylvester Aboagye , Telex M. N. Ngatched

Visible light communication (VLC) provides a unified framework for wireless data transmission and illumination, but its practical deployment requires transmission schemes that jointly satisfy communication and lighting constraints. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Igor S. C. Rodrigues , Leandro R. Ximenes , André L. F. de Almeida

Classical communication over lossy quantum channels is an essential topic in quantum information theory, with practical implications for optical-fiber and free-space communications. Multi-phase Hadamard codes, based on coherent-state Binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Farzad Kianvash , Matteo Rosati

The limited bandwidth of optical wireless communication (OWC) front-end devices motivates the use of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) techniques to enhance data rates. It is known that very high multiplexing gains could be achieved by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Anil Yesilkaya , Ardimas Andi Purwita , Erdal Panayirci , H. Vincent Poor , Harald Haas

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…

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

In this paper, we investigate the design and implementation of machine learning (ML) based demodulation methods in the physical layer of visible light communication (VLC) systems. We build a flexible hardware prototype of an end-to-end VLC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Shuai Ma , Jiahui Dai , Songtao Lu , Hang Li , Han Zhang , Chun Du , Shiyin Li

Autonomous and self-driving vehicles are appearing on the public highways. These vehicles commonly use wireless communication techniques for both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. Manufacturers, regulators and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Sean Rowan , Michael Clear , Mario Gerla , Meriel Huggard , Ciarán Mc Goldrick

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 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) provides a short-range optical wireless communication through light-emitting diode (LED) lighting. Light beam flickering and dimming are among the challenges to be addressed in VLC. Conventional methods for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Elie Ngomseu Mambou , Thibaud Tonnellier , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Warren J. Gross

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

A method of information transmission using visual markers has been widely studied. In this approach, information or identifiers (IDs) are encoded in the black-and-white pattern of each marker. By analyzing the geometric properties of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Wataru Uemura , Shogo Kawasaki

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

Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) is regarded as an auspicious communication approach that can outperform the existing wireless technology. It utilizes LED lights, whose subtle variation in radiant intensity generate a binary data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Fadi Al-Turjman , Diletta Cacciagrano , Leonardo Mostarda , Mattia Paccamiccio , Zaib Ullah

Indoor visible light communication (VLC) is a promising sixth-generation (6G) technology, as its directional and sensitive optical signals are naturally suited for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, current research…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Xinyan Xie , Xuesong Wang , Xin Lai , Yongheng Wen , Fengrui Yang , Haoyang He , Lai Zhang , Dong Zhao

For dynamic visible light communication (VLC) systems, received optical power fluctuates largely due to the fast movement of VLC terminals. Such fluctuations will cause possible signal clipping and quantization noise at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Yingwen Zhang , Xianqing Jin , Weibin Jiang , Xinmin Chen , Zhengyuan Xu