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Optics · Physics 2024-10-22 Yuhang Li , Shiqi Chen , Bijie Bai , Aydogan Ozcan

Indoor visible light communication (VLC) is considered secure against attackers outside the confined area where the light propagates, but it is still susceptible to interception from inside the coverage area. A new technology, intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Rashid Iqbal , Mauro Biagi , Ahmed Zoha , Muhammad Ali Imran , Hanaa Abumarshoud

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging methods are capable of reconstructing complex scenes that are not visible to an observer using indirect illumination. However, they assume only third-bounce illumination, so they are currently limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Diego Royo , Talha Sultan , Adolfo Muñoz , Khadijeh Masumnia-Bisheh , Eric Brandt , Diego Gutierrez , Andreas Velten , Julio Marco

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication enables multi-gigabit-per-second data rates but is highly susceptible to path loss and blockage, especially indoors. Many indoor settings, however, include naturally occurring specular surfaces such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Raj Sai Sohel Bandari , Amod Ashtekar , Omar Ibrahim , Mohammed E. Eltayeb

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

The rise of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) is opening the door for unprecedented capabilities in visible light communication (VLC) systems. By controlling light propagation in indoor environments, it is possible to manipulate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Hanaa Abumarshoud , Cheng Chen , Iman Tavakkolnia , Harald Haas , Muhammad Ali Imran

This letter investigates physical layer security in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided visible light communication (VLC). Under the point source assumption, we first elaborate the system model in the scenario with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Shiyuan Sun , Fang Yang , Jian Song , Zhu Han

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

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 emerging as a means to network computing devices that ameliorates many hurdles of radio-frequency (RF) communications, for example, the limited available spectrum. Enabling VLC in wearable computing,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Ambuj Varshney , Luca Mottola , Thiemo Voigt

The increasing demand for wireless networks of higher capacity requires key-enabling technologies. Optical wireless communication (OWC) arises as a complementary technology to radio frequency (RF) systems that can support high aggregate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Ahrar N. Hamad , Walter Zibusiso Ncube , Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

We study a visible light communication (VLC) system that employs a colored reconfigurable intelligent surface (CRIS) based on dichroic mirrors that reflect light at tunable frequencies. A verifier can use the CRIS to authenticate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Besra Cetindere Vela , Serkan Vela , Stefano Tomasin

Optical intelligent reflecting surface (OIRS) has been considered a promising technology for visible light communication (VLC) by constructing visual line-of-sight propagation paths to address the signal blockage issue. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Shiyuan Sun , Fang Yang , Weidong Mei , Jian Song , Zhu Han , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) to relax the line-of-sight requirement of free space optical (FSO) systems. Considering a Gaussian laser beam, we first design a phase-shift distribution across…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Marzieh Najafi , Bernhard Schmauss , Robert Schober

Visible light communication (VLC) has the potential to supplement the growing demand for wireless connectivity. In order to realise the full potential of VLC, channel models are required Discrete channel models based on semi-hidden Markov…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-20 Daniel G. Holmes , Ling Cheng , Mulundumina Shimaponda-Nawa , Ayokunle D. Familua , Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz

In this paper, we study a multi-user visible light communication (VLC) system assisted with optical reflecting intelligent surface (ORIS). Joint precoding and alignment matrices are designed to maximize the average signal-to-interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Mahmoud Atashbar , Hamed Alizadeh Ghazijahani , Yong Liang Guan , Zhaojie Yang

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

Accurate localization can be performed in visible light systems in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios by utilizing intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), which are commonly in the form of mirror arrays with adjustable orientations. When…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Issifu Iddrisu , Sinan Gezici

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