Simulation, Performance and Interference Analysis of Multi-user Visible Light Communication Systems


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The emergence of new physical media such as optical wireless, and the ability to aggregate these new media with legacy networks motivate the study of heterogeneous network performance, especially with respect to the design of protocols to best exploit the characteristics of each medium.




Visible Light Communication


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The field of visible light communication (VLC) has diverse applications to the end user including streaming audio, video, high-speed data browsing, voice over internet and online gaming. This comprehensive textbook discusses fundamental aspects, research activities and modulation techniques in the field of VLC. Visible Light Communication: A Comprehensive Theory and Applications with MATLAB® discusses topics including line of sight (LOS) propagation model, non-line of sight (NLOS) propagation model, carrier less amplitude and phase modulation, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO), non-linearities of optical sources, orthogonal frequency-division multiple access, non-orthogonal multiple access and single-carrier frequency-division multiple access in depth. Primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of electronics and communication engineering for courses on optical wireless communication and VLC, this book: Provides up-to-date literature in the field of VLC Presents MATLAB codes and simulations to help readers understand simulations Discusses applications of VLC in enabling vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication Covers topics including radio frequency (RF) based wireless communications and VLC Presents modulation formats along with the derivations of probability of error expressions pertaining to different variants of optical OFDM




Principles of LED Light Communications


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Balancing theoretical analysis and practical advice, this book describes all the underlying principles required to build high performance indoor optical wireless communication (OWC) systems based on visible and infrared light, alongside essential techniques for optimising systems by maximising throughput, reducing hardware complexity and measuring performance effectively. It provides a comprehensive analysis of information rate-, spectral- and power-efficiencies for single and multi-carrier transmission schemes, and a novel analysis of non-linear signal distortion, enabling the use of off-the-shelf LED technology. Other topics covered include cellular network throughput and coverage, static resource partitioning and dynamic interference-aware scheduling, realistic light propagation modelling, OFDM, optical MIMO transmission and nonlinearity modelling. Covering practical techniques for building indoor optical wireless cellular networks supporting multiple users and guidelines for 5G cellular system studies, in addition to physical layer issues, this is an indispensable resource for academic researchers, professional engineers and graduate students working in optical communications.




Visible Light Communications


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A complete and comprehensive reference on modulation and signal processing for visible light communication This informative new book on state-of-the-art visible light communication (VLC) provides, for the first time, a systematical and advanced treatment of modulation and signal processing for VLC. Visible Light Communications: Modulation and Signal Processing offers a practical guide to designing VLC, linking academic research with commercial applications. In recent years, VLC has attracted attention from academia and industry since it has many advantages over the traditional radio frequency, including wide unregulated bandwidth, high security, and low cost. It is a promising complementary technique in 5G and beyond wireless communications, especially in indoor applications. However, lighting constraints have not been fully considered in the open literature when considering VLC system design, and its importance has been underestimated. That’s why this book—written by a team of experts with both academic research experience and industrial development experience in the field—is so welcome. To help readers understand the theory and design of VLC systems, the book: Details many modern techniques on both modulation and signal processing aspects Links academic research with commercial applications in visible light communications as well as other wireless communication systems Combines theoretical rigor with practical examples in presenting optical camera communication systems Visible Light Communications: Modulation and Signal Processing serves as a useful tool and reference book for visible light communication professionals, as well as wireless communication system professionals and project managers. It is also an important guide for undergraduates and graduates who want to conduct research in areas of wireless communications.




Efficiency and Security Analysis in Multi-user Wireless Communication Systems


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Efficiency and security are major concerns with increasingly higher importance in modern wireless communications. These two concerns are especially significant for multi-user wireless communications where different users share or compete for resources. Among different users, there are possibilities of cooperation, competition, and/or malicious behavior. Due to the possibility of cooperation among the users, the spectral and energy efficiency in multi-user wireless communications could be boosted. Due to the possibility of competition, the resource allocation in multi-user wireless systems may reach certain equilibrium. Due to the possibility of malicious behavior, the security and reliability of wireless communications can be undermined. In this thesis, a comprehensive analysis on the issues of efficiency and security in multi-user wireless communications is developed for three systems in four scenarios. The first multi-user system of multiple-input multiple-output two-way relaying has the feature of cooperation including a limited coordination scenario and a full coordination scenario. It is shown that high spectral efficiency can be achieved with efficient energy consumption in this system due to the cooperation among the users. Moreover, full coordination yields better results in both spectral and energy efficiency than limited coordination at the cost of higher overhead. The second multi-user system of legitimate transceiver(s) with a jammer features the existence of malicious behavior. To measure the jamming threat, the worst-case jamming is studied for different cases according to the jammer's knowledge of the legitimate communication. The optimal/sub-optimal jamming strategy in each case is analyzed and derived. The third multi-user system of two-user interference channel features the competition of the users. The situation is modeled using noncooperative games with continuous mixed strategies. The outcomes of the games are analyzed through the establishment of the conditions for the existence and uniqueness of mixed strategy Nash equilibrium.




Visible Light Communication and Positioning


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In recent years, wireless communications have significantly evolved due to the advanced technology of smartphones;, portable devices; and the rapid growth of Internet of Things, e-Health, and intelligent transportation systems . Moreover, there is anare increasing need fors of emerging intelligent services like positioning and sensing in athe future intelligence society. Recent years have witnessed the growing research interests and activities in the communication and intelligencet services in the optical wireless spectrum, as a complementary technology to more established radio frequency (RF)-based systems, to overcome the spectrum sparsity and increases data rates in crowded locations, due to the limited transmission range and interference. The OWC technology offers advantages such as free license, wide bandwidth, inherent security, no RF electromagnetic interference, and immunity to electromagnetic interference. The attractive applications of the optical spectrum include ultra-violet tactic communication, blue/green underwater communication, visible light positioning, and vehicular communication/sensing in intelligent transportation systems. The present Iissue, as named "Visible Light Communication and Positioning", focuses on visible light communication and visible light positioning, where four papers are on visible light communication and three papers are on visible light positioning. For visible light communication, the published works focus on the devices, the physical-layer techniques, and the system work aspects. Besides VLC, visible light positioning works include fingerprint-based indoor positioning system for multiple reflections, the impact of LED tilt on visible light positioning accuracy, and a mobile optoelectronic tracking system based on feedforward control.




Visible Light Communications


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Visible Light Communications, written by leading researchers, provides a comprehensive overview of theory, stimulation, design, implementation, and applications. The book is divided into two parts – the first devoted to the underlying theoretical concepts of the VLC and the second part covers VLC applications. Visible Light Communications is an emerging topic with multiple functionalities including data communication, indoor localization, 5G wireless communication networks, security, and small cell optimization. This concise book will be of valuable interest from beginners to researchers in the field.




Design and Implementation of Visible Light Communication Circuit for Wireless Data Transmission and Radio Frequency Argumentation


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The societal reliance upon wireless systems continues to rise due to mobile data interchange. A closer look at the current allocation of 38 GHz 5G Cellular is desperately pointing to, and suggesting the crowding of the frequency spectrum. Therefore this study explores visible light communication as one of the emerging technologies to help meet up with these challenges. The Visible Light Communication (VLC) refers to the communication technology which utilizes the visible light source as a signal transmitter, the air as a transmission medium, and the appropriate photodiode as a signal receiving component. This study appraises the extant literature on Solid State Lighting (SSL), with emphasis on Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The study highlights the weaknesses of the existing system, the advantages and the significance of the new system using prototype methodology. The study focused on the design and implementation of Visible Light Communication (VLC) circuit for wireless data transmission by designing an analog circuit to integrate with a computer or mobile phone, and then sending some form of data using visible light LEDs from a transmitter, and decoding it with a receiver. The design adopted Beagle-Bone-Black (BBB) as development platform and the circuit was tested with Proteus 8 Professional and data sent reliably and accurately over a short distance at a fair speed which ensures that the initial goals for the functionality of this new system which includes being able to send audio, text or pictures over a distance of approximately 10 meter at a data rate of at least 10 Mbps was achieved. The study shows that visible light communication has the potential to provide high speed data communication with improved energy efficiency and communication security/privacy due to its unique characteristics and advantages. Also, Visible Light Communication can complement the RF-based mobile communication systems in designing high-capacity mobile data networks and can be incorporated in the next generation 5G network. The study therefore recommends error control mechanism and Dimming Support to be integrated in the subsequent studies.




Performance Analysis and Effect of Multi-user Interference for Ultra Wideband Communications


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Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is an upcoming technology for short-range high data rate applications like Wireless Personal Area Networks or medium/long-range low data rate applications like sensor networks. UWB has many captivating characteristics such as very short duration pulses (order of nanoseconds), multipath channel, large instantaneous bandwidth and time hopping pulse trains resulting in coexistence with the existing narrow band users. The Ultra Wideband communication systems employ the technique of Impulse radio of transmitting short duration pulses which result in extremely wide bandwidth and many performance benefits. Since UWB systems operate in dense multipath environments, RAKE receiver is the optimum choice for the receiver. Considering the evolving nature and the wide applications of this technology, it is important to analyze the system performance for different scenarios including the multi-user environment. My thesis mainly targets the analysis of the bit error rate (BER) performance of the time hopping pulse position modulation (TH-PPM) UWB system with the use of Ideal Rake Receiver and the performance degradation when the Selective and Partial Rake receivers are employed. I have also analyzed the effect of changing the repletion code length on the performance. The performance analysis is carried out for varying the modulation index M by employing 4-PPM instead of Binary PPM and simulation results show that 4-PPM offers a worse performance to the binary PPM case. Furthermore, I have evaluated the performance in the presence of Multiuser Interference using the Standard Gaussian Approximation. Finally, the performance of employing M-ary PPM in the multi-user scenario is also evaluated. The simulations are performed under the assumption of perfect channel knowledge. The IEEE UWB indoor channel model is used for Non Line of Sight (NLOS) Case C which is for 4 to 10 m distance between the transmitter and the receiver.




Visible Light Communication


Book Description

The field of visible light communication (VLC) has diverse applications to the end user including streaming audio, video, high-speed data browsing, voice over internet and online gaming. This comprehensive textbook discusses fundamental aspects, research activities and modulation techniques in the field of VLC. Visible Light Communication: A Comprehensive Theory and Applications with MATLAB® discusses topics including line of sight (LOS) propagation model, non-line of sight (NLOS) propagation model, carrier less amplitude and phase modulation, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO), non-linearities of optical sources, orthogonal frequency-division multiple access, non-orthogonal multiple access and single-carrier frequency-division multiple access in depth. Primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of electronics and communication engineering for courses on optical wireless communication and VLC, this book: Provides up-to-date literature in the field of VLC Presents MATLAB codes and simulations to help readers understand simulations Discusses applications of VLC in enabling vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication Covers topics including radio frequency (RF) based wireless communications and VLC Presents modulation formats along with the derivations of probability of error expressions pertaining to different variants of optical OFDM