The effect of reflection on indoor visible-light communication system utilizing white LEDs

Author

FAN, Kanei ; Komine, Toshihiko ; TANAKA, Yuichi ; Nakagawa, Masao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Keio Univ., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

27-30 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

611

Abstract

Future electric lighting will be composed of white LEDs (light emitting diodes). Indoor wireless optical communication system utilizing white LED lights has been proposed and studied. Though the characteristics of the proposed system in LOS (Line-of-Sight) have already been announced in our laboratory, it can be assumed that the effect of the multi-path due to the reflection is appreciable in the high speed communication system. In this paper, we will analyze the performance characteristics of the proposed system in the effect of the multi-path due to the reflection, and show the effectiveness of the system.

Keywords

light emitting diodes; lighting; multipath channels; optical communication; LOS; electric lighting; high speed communication system; indoor visible-light communication system; line-of-sight; multi-path; performance characteristics; reflection; white LEDs; Cities and towns; Computer science; Electromagnetic interference; LED lamps; Laboratories; Light emitting diodes; Optical fiber communication; Optical reflection; Radio frequency; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2002. The 5th International Symposium on

ISSN

1347-6890

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7442-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088247

Filename

1088247