Base station layout support system for indoor visible light communication

In this paper, we propose a base station layout support system for indoor visible light communication using LED for general indoor lighting. Recently, LED comes into practical use and visible light communications using LED have been proposed. However, a method which provides an optimal base station layout for visible light communications based on some environments and conditions has not been proposed yet. The environments and conditions include room arrangements, room usages, any photo detectors, and so on. We therefore propose a base station layout support system which considers requirements of both lighting and communication and provides an appropriate base station layout satisfying all conditions given by a user. Moreover, we construct a user-interface implementing the proposed system and demonstrate the validity through some simulation results.