scholarly journals Optical OFDM for SiPM-Based Underwater Optical Wireless Communication Links

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 6057
Author(s):  
Taha Essalih ◽  
Mohammad Ali Khalighi ◽  
Steve Hranilovic ◽  
Hassan Akhouayri
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Data Rate ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
High Data ◽  
Communication Links

Underwater optical wireless systems have dual requirements of high data rates and long ranges in harsh scattering and attenuation conditions. In this paper, we investigate the advantages and limitations of optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (O-OFDM) signaling when a silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM) is used at the receiver in order to ensure high sensitivity. Considering a light-emitting diode (LED) transmitter and taking into account the limited dynamic range imposed by the transmitter and the SiPM receiver, we study the performance of three popular O-OFDM schemes, i.e., DC-biased, asymmetrically-clipped, and layered asymmetrically-clipped O-OFDM (DCO-, ACO-, and LACO-OFDM, respectively). We consider a constraint on transmit electrical power PTxe and take into account the required DC bias for the three considered schemes in practice, showing the undeniable advantage of ACO- and LACO-OFDM in terms of energy efficiency. For instance, for the considered SiPM and LED components, a spectral efficiency of ∼1 bps/Hz with a data rate of 20 Mbps, a link range of 70 m, and a target bit-error-rate (BER) of 10−3, ACO and LACO allow a reduction of about 10 and 6 mW, respectively, in the required PTxe, compared to DCO-OFDM. Meanwhile, we show that when relaxing the PTxe constraint, DCO-OFDM offers the largest operational link range within which a target BER can be achieved. For instance, for a target BER of 10−3 and a data rate of 20 Mbps, and considering PTxe of 185, 80, and 50 mW for DCO-, LACO-, and ACO-OFDM, respectively, the corresponding intervals of operational link range are about 81, 74.3, and 73.8 m. Lastly, we show that LACO-OFDM makes a good compromise between energy efficiency and operational range flexibility, although requiring a higher computational complexity and imposing a longer latency at the receiver.

Mobility aware of WDM-based CMO OFDM communication system

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad M. Hardan ◽  
Ayad A. Abdulkafi ◽  
Saadi Hamad Thalij ◽  
Sherine S. Jumaah
Keyword(s):  
Wavelength Division Multiplexing ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Access Point ◽  
Mobile Users ◽  
Visible Light Communications ◽  
Optical Wireless Communications ◽  
High Data ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The continued increase in several mobile applications forces to replace existing limited spectrum indoor radio frequency wireless connections with high-speed ones. Visible light communications (VLC) technology has gained prominence in the development of high data rate transmission for fifth-generation networks. In optical wireless communications, light-emitting diode (LED) transmitters are used in applications that desire mobility as LED divergence enables larger coverage. Since each VLC access point covers a small area, handovers of mobile users are inevitable. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) can be used in VLC systems to tackle the above issue and to meet the increasing demand for indoor connectivity with high bit rates. In this paper, a new system architecture for WDM with coded modulated optical in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) VLC system in conjunction with red, green, blue, and yellow (RGBY) LEDs is proposed to reduce the impact of random receiver orientation of indoor mobile users over VLC downlink channels and improves the system’s bit-error-rate (BER) performance. Simulation results show that the proposed method is not affected by the user’s mobility and hence it performs better than other approaches, in terms of BER for all scenarios and at all positions. This study reveals that using WDM-OFDM-VLC with RGBY LEDs to construct a VLC system is very promising.

scholarly journals Design of an SVM Classifier Assisted Intelligent Receiver for Reliable Optical Camera Communication

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4283
Author(s):  
Md.-Habibur Rahman ◽  
Md. Shahjalal ◽  
Moh. Khalid Hasan ◽  
Md.-Osman Ali ◽  
Yeong-Min Jang
Keyword(s):  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Characteristic Curve ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Image Sensor ◽  
Data Rate ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
High Data ◽  
Receiver System ◽  
Optical Camera Communication

Embedding optical camera communication (OCC) commercially as a favorable complement of radio-frequency technology has led to the desire for an intelligent receiver system that is eligible to communicate with an accurate light-emitting diode (LED) transmitter. To shed light on this issue, a novel scheme for detecting and recognizing data transmitting LEDs has been elucidated in this paper. Since the optically modulated signal is captured wirelessly by a camera that plays the role of the receiver for the OCC technology, the process to detect LED region and retrieval of exact information from the image sensor is required to be intelligent enough to achieve a low bit error rate (BER) and high data rate to ensure reliable optical communication within limited computational abilities of the most used commercial cameras such as those in smartphones, vehicles, and mobile robots. In the proposed scheme, we have designed an intelligent camera receiver system that is capable of separating accurate data transmitting LED regions removing other unwanted LED regions employing a support vector machine (SVM) classifier along with a convolutional neural network (CNN) in the camera receiver. CNN is used to detect every LED region from the image frame and then essential features are extracted to feed into an SVM classifier for further accurate classification. The receiver operating characteristic curve and other key performance parameters of the classifier have been analyzed broadly to evaluate the performance, justify the assistance of the SVM classifier in recognizing the accurate LED region, and decode data with low BER. To investigate communication performances, BER analysis, data rate, and inter-symbol interference have been elaborately demonstrated for the proposed intelligent receiver. In addition, BER against distance and BER against data rate have also been exhibited to validate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme comparing with only CNN and only SVM classifier based receivers individually. Experimental results have ensured the robustness and applicability of the proposed scheme both in the static and mobile scenarios.

scholarly journals Maximizing Energy Efficiency for Consumption Circuit Power in Downlink Massive MIMO Wireless Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 2977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeeb Salh ◽  
Lukman Audah ◽  
Nor Shahida M. Shah ◽  
Shipun A. Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Minimum Mean Square Error ◽  
Data Rate ◽  
Optimal Number ◽  
Zero Forcing ◽  
High Data ◽  
Circuit Power

<span>Massive multi-input–multi-output (MIMO) systems are crucial to maximizing energy efficiency (EE) and battery-saving technology. Achieving EE without sacrificing the quality of service (QoS) is increasingly important for mobile devices. We first derive the data rate through zero forcing (ZF) and three linear precodings: maximum ratio transmission (MRT), zero forcing (ZF), and minimum mean square error (MMSE). Performance EE can be achieved when all available antennas are used and when taking account of the consumption circuit power ignored because of high transmit power. The aim of this work is to demonstrate how to obtain maximum EE while minimizing power consumed, which achieves a high data rate by deriving the optimal number of antennas in the downlink massive MIMO system. This system includes not only the transmitted power but also the fundamental operation circuit power at the transmitter signal. Maximized EE depends on the optimal number of antennas and determines the number of active users that should be scheduled in each cell. We conclude that the linear precoding technique MMSE achieves the maximum EE more than ZF and MRT</span><em></em><span>because the MMSE is able to make the massive MIMO system less sensitive to SNR at an increased number of antennas</span><span>.</span>

scholarly journals Optimum resource allocation in optical wireless systems with energy-efficient fog and cloud architectures

2020 ◽  
Vol 378 (2169) ◽  
pp. 20190188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama Zwaid Alsulami ◽  
Amal A. Alahmadi ◽  
Sarah O. M. Saeed ◽  
Sanaa Hamid Mohamed ◽  
T. E. H. El-Gorashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Multiple Access ◽  
Mobile Node ◽  
Data Rate ◽  
Optical Wireless Communication ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
High Data ◽  
Multiple Users ◽  
Integrated Architecture

Optical wireless communication (OWC) is a promising technology that can provide high data rates while supporting multiple users. The optical wireless (OW) physical layer has been researched extensively, however, less work was devoted to multiple access and how the OW front end is connected to the network. In this paper, an OWC system which employs a wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) scheme is studied, for the purpose of supporting multiple users. In addition, a cloud/fog architecture is proposed for the first time for OWC to provide processing capabilities. The cloud/fog-integrated architecture uses visible indoor light to create high data rate connections with potential mobile nodes. These OW nodes are further clustered and used as fog mini servers to provide processing services through the OW channel for other users. Additional fog-processing units are located in the room, the building, the campus and at the metro level. Further processing capabilities are provided by remote cloud sites. Two mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) models were proposed to numerically study networking and processing in OW systems. The first MILP model was developed and used to optimize resource allocation in the indoor OWC systems, in particular, the allocation of access points (APs) and wavelengths to users, while the second MILP model was developed to optimize the placement of processing tasks in the different fog and cloud nodes available. The optimization of tasks placement in the cloud/fog-integrated architecture was analysed using the MILP models. Multiple scenarios were considered where the mobile node locations were varied in the room and the amount of processing and data rate requested by each OW node was varied. The results help to identify the optimum colour and AP to use for communication for a given mobile node location and OWC system configuration, the optimum location to place processing and the impact of the network architecture. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Optical wireless communication’.

scholarly journals Optical Camera Communications for IoT–Rolling-Shutter Based MIMO Scheme with Grouped LED Array Transmitter

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 3361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivani Rajendra Teli ◽  
Vicente Matus ◽  
Stanislav Zvanovec ◽  
Rafael Perez-Jimenez ◽  
Stanislav Vitek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
High Data ◽  
Data Throughput ◽  
Data Rates ◽  
Led Array ◽  
Communication Links ◽  
Input Multiple Output

In optical camera communications (OCC), the provision of both flicker-free illumination and high data rates are challenging issues, which can be addressed by utilizing the rolling-shutter (RS) property of the image sensors as the receiver (Rx). In this paper, we propose an RS-based multiple-input multiple-output OCC scheme for the Internet of things (IoT) application. A simplified design of multi-channel transmitter (Tx) using a 7.2 × 7.2 cm2 small 8 × 8 distributed light emitting diode (LED) array, based on grouping of LEDs, is proposed for flicker-free transmission. We carry out an experimental investigation of the indoor OCC system by employing a Raspberry Pi camera as the Rx, with RS capturing mode. Despite the small area of the display, flicker-free communication links within the range of 20–100 cm are established with data throughput of 960 to 120 bps sufficient for IoT. A method to extend link spans up to 1.8 m and the data throughput to 13.44 kbps using different configurations of multi-channel Tx is provided. The peak signal-to-noise ratio of ~14 and 16 dB and the rate of successfully received bits of 99.4 and 81% are measured for the shutter speeds of 200 and 800 µs for a link span of 1 m, respectively.

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