Abstract
Visible Light Communication (VLC) has emerged as a powerful technique for wireless communication systems. Providing high data rate and increasing capacity are the major problems in VLC. Recent evidence suggests that Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technique can offers improved data rates and increased link range. This paper describes the design and implementation of visible light communication system in indoor environment exploring the benefits of MIMO. The specific objective of this research was to implement a 4×4 Multiple Input (LEDs) Multiple Output (photodetectors)-VLC communication system, where a 16 white power LEDs in four arrays are setting up at transmitter and four RX modules are setting up at receiver side without the need for additional power or bandwidth as well as analyze a mathematical model for a VLC- 4×4 MIMO with different modes such as the suitable angles to cover the entire room. The research designs practically an electronic circuit for the transmitter and receiver with inexpensive components. The power distribution of different propagation modes is calculated for Single Input Single Output (SISO) and MIMO channels in typical room dimensions. The results in this paper indicate that the power is distributed uniformly for entire room when implemented VLC-MIMO as compared to VLC-SISO. Furthermore, a 4×4 MIMO implementing VLC is compared in term of BER vs. SINR with SISO communication system for both Line of Sight (LOS) and Non Line of Sight (NLOS) propagation modes. Comparing the two results of LOS and NLOS, it can be seen that a 4×4 MIMO implementing VLC for LOS perform better than the same system with NLOS due to decreasing in the received power resulted from the multipath effect.
Highlights
The results in this paper indicate that the power is distributed uniformly for entire room when implemented Visible Light Communication (VLC)-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) as compared to VLC-Single Input Single Output (SISO)
Recent developments in lighting industry have heightened the need for Visible Light Communication (VLC) which has been attracting a lot of interest in the short distances wireless communications [1]
VLCs have emerged as a powerful solution for indoor high-speed data transmission, where high spectral efficiencies and low latencies are the main requirements for generation wireless networks
Summary
Recent developments in lighting industry have heightened the need for Visible Light Communication (VLC) which has been attracting a lot of interest in the short distances wireless communications [1]. VLCs have emerged as a powerful solution for indoor high-speed data transmission, where high spectral efficiencies and low latencies are the main requirements for generation wireless networks. MIMO channels where multiple sources and multiple detectors are setting up at transmitter and receiver are predominantly used to combat multipath fading and optimize the data rate. Visible light communications implementing MIMO technique is a promising solution for wireless communication systems in beyond 5G networks. It provides high energy efficiency, low implementation cost, and high-speed data transmission [11]. In a typical indoor VLC system, there are illuminated sources; it is natural to utilize MIMO technique to have parallel data [12]. Due to the highly directional characteristics of light propagation, the communication through VLC channels has mainly relied on the availability of LOS link in addition to NLOS link where the transmitted signal at the receiver through different angles, different time delays and/or different frequency [13]
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