Enhancing the Bit Error Rate of Visible Light Communication Systems Using Channel Estimation and Channel Coding

Author(s):  
Tian Zhang ◽  
Shuxu Guo ◽  
Haipeng Chen
Computation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitra K. Manousou ◽  
Argyris N. Stassinakis ◽  
Emmanuel Syskakis ◽  
Hector E. Nistazakis ◽  
Spiros Gardelis ◽  
...  

Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems use light-emitting diode (LED) technology to provide high-capacity optical links. The advantages they offer, such as the high data rate and the low installation and operational cost, have identified them as a significant solution for modern networks. However, such systems are vulnerable to various exogenous factors, with the background sunlight noise having the greatest impact. In order to reduce the negative influence of the background noise effect, optical filters can be used. In this work, for the first time, a low-cost optical vanadium dioxide (VO2) optical filter has been designed and experimentally implemented based on the requirements of typical and realistic VLC systems in order to significantly increase their performance by reducing the transmittance of background noise. The functionality of the specific filter is investigated by means of its bit error rate (BER) performance estimation, taking into account its experimentally measured characteristics. Numerous results are provided in order to prove the significant performance enhancement of the VLC systems which, as it is shown, reaches almost six orders of magnitude in some cases, using the specific experimental optical filter.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sourish Chatterjee ◽  
Biswanath Roy

AbstractIn recent time of looming radio frequency (RF) spectrum crisis, visible light communication using lighting infrastructure emerged as a potential alternative at an indoor environment. This paper addresses the setback associated with ambient light interference in an indoor Visible Light Communication (VLC) system to ensure joint communication and illumination performance inside an office room. A novel VLC architecture with suitable white light emitting diode (WLED) luminaire arrangement is presented to minimize the dispersion of signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) across the room. Luminaires are categorized in two groups viz. data transmitting illuminants and illuminants for lighting purpose. The first group is dedicated to transmit data as well as serves the purpose of illumination. The other set creates only ambient illumination to achieve quality lighting attributes. The proposed forward error corrected receiver configuration discards the ambient light noise originated by the illuminants that serve the ambient illumination. Tail biting convolutional encoder and viterbi decoder are used at the encoding section of the transmitter and decoding section of the receiver respectively to improve bit error rate. Results obtained through MATLAB simulation shows better average bit error rate (BER) in the order of 10−8 measured at uniformly distributed 25 grid points over the working plane. At the same time achieved average horizontal illuminance with good uniformity comply with ISO recommendation.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1713
Author(s):  
Hyunwoo Jung ◽  
Sung-Man Kim

We experimentally demonstrated full-duplex light-emitting diode (LED)-to-LED visible light communication (VLC) using LEDs as the transmitter and receiver. Firstly, we investigated the performance dependency on the wavelengths of the LED transmitter and receiver by measuring the rise time and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Through the investigation, we were able to choose the optimal LED color set for LED-to-LED VLC using Shannon’s channel capacity law. The bit error rate (BER) results of full-duplex and half-duplex LED-to-LED VLC systems with the optimal LED sets are shown to compare the performance. Furthermore, we discuss major distortions and signal losses in the full-duplex LED-to-LED VLC system.


2020 ◽  
pp. 147715352092620
Author(s):  
LL Hao ◽  
CD Li ◽  
DY Wang

In this paper, a stacked autoencoder network is utilised to realise the signal constellation and transceivers adapted to the dimmable indoor visible light communication system in order to acquire lower symbol error probability. Its decoder parts function as denoising and the equaliser for the proposed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) visible light communication system which can compensate the non-linear transfer function and the crosstalk between multiple LED data streams. The bit error rate performance as well as the influence of LED spatial intervals on root mean square delay spread, impulse response and bit rate have been analysed considering multipath reflections of the indoor MIMO-VLC system. The numerical results show that the a stacked autoencoder technique performs better in bit error rate reduction compared with state-of-art the zero forcing and minimum mean squared error algorithm. The experiment also shows, when the semi-angle at half power of LEDs and the field of view of Photodetectors become small, better performance can be achieved at the centre of the room, which can be explained by strong beam converge and the decreased multipath interference. Moreover, enlarging the separation between LEDs leads to improved bit error rate performance and reduced channel correlation of channel matrix, which need to be optimally chosen in practice.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 2638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaseein Soubhi Hussein ◽  
Mohamad Yusoff Alias ◽  
Ayad A. Abdulkafi ◽  
Nazaruddin Omar ◽  
Mohd Kamarulzamin Bin Salleh

The tremendous growth of indoor communication requires increased capacity and appropriate quality of services. Visible light communica-tion (VLC) is a green technology that shows great promise in terms of its ability to meet the demand for communication services. Orthogo-nal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) enables VLC to provide a higher data rate and to combat inter-symbol interference. However, an accurate and efficient channel estimation method is needed for coherent demodulation at the receiver end of an OFDM system. In this paper, a new algorithm for OFDM-based VLC systems is proposed. The algorithm is based on expectation maximization and is called the expectation maximization for visible light communication (EM-VLC) algorithm. The algorithm is implemented to find the maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation of the channel impulse response and to find unknown parameters. In addition, a low-rank minimum mean square error (lr-MMSE) estimator algorithm is developed and its performance is compared with least squares (LS) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimators. The proposed EM-VLC algorithm improves the performance of OFDM VLC systems by significantly reducing the bit error rate (BER) and consequently increasing system throughput. The simulation results demonstrate that the EM-VLC algorithm outper-forms the three channel estimation algorithms, LS, MMSE and lr-MMSE.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhipeng Gao ◽  
Yuhao Wang ◽  
Xiaodong Liu ◽  
Fuhui Zhou ◽  
Kat-Kit Wong

Technologies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumitra Motade ◽  
Anju Kulkarni

In multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems, multi-user detection (MUD) algorithms play an important role in reducing the effect of multi-access interference (MAI). A combination of the estimation of channel and multi-user detection is proposed for eliminating various interferences and reduce the bit error rate (BER). First, a novel sparse based k-nearest neighbor classifier is proposed to estimate the unknown activity factor at a high data rate. The active users are continuously detected and their data are decoded at the base station (BS) receiver. The activity detection considers both the pilot and data symbols. Second, an optimal pilot allocation method is suggested to select the minimum mutual coherence in the measurement matrix for optimal pilot placement. The suggested algorithm for designing pilot patterns significantly improves the results in terms of mean square error (MSE), symbol error rate (SER) and bit error rate for channel detection. An optimal pilot placement reduces the computational complexity and maximizes the accuracy of the system. The performance of the channel estimation (CE) and MUD for the proposed scheme was good as it provided significant results, which were validated through simulations.


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