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An FPGA-based centralized visible light beacon network

Signal Processing 2019-03-18 v1

Abstract

Indoor localization systems based on Visible Light Communication (VLC) have shown promising advantages compared with systems based on other wireless technologies. In these systems, many VLC light-emitting diode (LED) anchors are employed in an indoor space in which location identification messages are sent to user devices in small packets. In normal beacon network models, micro-controller (MCU) or low-end system-on-chip (SoC) are often the coordinators which configure messages for one or many VLC-LED bulbs. In this paper, we discuss about processing overload and implementation cost of the two typical models of VLC beacon network in scenarios of a hundred of VLC-LED anchors are taken into account. Finally, an FPGA-based centralized VLC transmitter and its aided Nios II-based system has been introduced to enhance the performance of the VLC beacon network. Besides, due to the centralized processing, our system model is considered to be more cost-efficient than the dedicated-processor-based models

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@article{arxiv.1903.06228,
  title  = {An FPGA-based centralized visible light beacon network},
  author = {Duc-Phuc Nguyen and Dinh-Dung Le},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06228},
  year   = {2019}
}

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