A Novel Hybrid Dimming Control Scheme for Visible Light Communications

Bibliographic Details
Title: A Novel Hybrid Dimming Control Scheme for Visible Light Communications
Authors: Yang Yang, Zhimin Zeng, Julian Cheng, Caili Guo
Source: IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 9, Iss 6, Pp 1-12 (2017)
Publisher Information: IEEE, 2017.
Publication Year: 2017
Collection: LCC:Applied optics. Photonics
LCC:Optics. Light
Subject Terms: Bit error rate, dimming control, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, visible light communication., Applied optics. Photonics, TA1501-1820, Optics. Light, QC350-467
More Details: A dimming control scheme that combines analog dimming and spatial dimming is proposed. The basic idea of the combined scheme is that both the direct current bias level of each individual light-emitting diode (LED) and the number of glared LEDs are simultaneously adjusted to achieve a required dimming level. Besides, we design a space constellation to transmit additional information in spatial domain without compromising uniform illumination constraint, and this essentially improves the performance of the system. A maximum-a-posteriori probability estimator is also designed to estimate the received time domain and spatial domain signals. Since two degree of freedoms are simultaneously exploited for dimming control, the proposed scheme outperforms conventional dimming schemes, which only focus on signal domain design, and this is verified by simulation results. To the best of authors' knowledge, this is the first design that effectively utilizes multidomain resources to achieve dimming control for visible light communications.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1943-0655
Relation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8100915/; https://doaj.org/toc/1943-0655
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2771223
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/c405b427aea14b60bf6c9f24603f4116
Accession Number: edsdoj.405b427aea14b60bf6c9f24603f4116
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:19430655
DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2771223
Published in:IEEE Photonics Journal
Language:English