Communicate to illuminate: State-of-the-art and research challenges for visible light communications

O Ergul, E Dinc, OB Akan - Physical Communication, 2015 - Elsevier
In the near future, the available radio-frequency (RF) bandwidth will not be sufficient to meet
the ever increasing demand for wireless access. Visible light communication (VLC) is an …

Visible light communications: a survey on recent high-capacity demonstrations and digital modulation techniques

PA Loureiro, FP Guiomar, PP Monteiro - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In order to deal with the increasing number of mobile devices and with their demand for
Internet services, particularly social media platforms, streaming video, and online gaming …

Light fidelity (Li-Fi): towards all-optical networking

D Tsonev, S Videv, H Haas - Broadband Access …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Motivated by the looming radio frequency (RF) spectrum crisis, this paper aims at
demonstrating that optical wireless communication (OWC) has now reached a state where it …

Flip-OFDM for unipolar communication systems

N Fernando, Y Hong, E Viterbo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unipolar communications systems can transmit information using only real and positive
signals. This includes a variety of physical channels ranging from optical (fiber or free …

Channel characteristics of visible light communications within dynamic indoor environment

P Chvojka, S Zvanovec, PA Haigh… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visible light communications (VLC) is a new emerging technology, which provides both data
transmission and illumination by utilizing the visible range (370-780 nm) of the …

Unlocking spectral efficiency in intensity modulation and direct detection systems

D Tsonev, S Videv, H Haas - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A number of inherently unipolar orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
modulation schemes have been introduced recently in an attempt to improve the energy …

Optical MIMO-OFDM with generalized LED index modulation

A Yesilkaya, E Basar, F Miramirkhani… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visible light communications (VLC) is a promising and uncharted new technology for the
next generation of wireless communication systems. This paper proposes a novel …

Complete modeling of nonlinear distortion in OFDM-based optical wireless communication

D Tsonev, S Sinanovic, H Haas - Journal of Lightwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a complete analytical framework for modeling memoryless nonlinear
effects in an intensity modulation and direct detection optical wireless communication …

Avoiding spectral efficiency loss in unipolar OFDM for optical wireless communication

D Tsonev, H Haas - 2014 IEEE international conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unipolar orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (U-OFDM) has recently been introduced
for intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) systems. The scheme achieves higher …

Reverse polarity optical-OFDM (RPO-OFDM): dimming compatible OFDM for gigabit VLC links

H Elgala, TDC Little - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Visible light communications (VLC) technology permits the exploitation of light-emitting
diode (LED) luminaries for simultaneous illumination and broadband wireless …