MIMO Codes for Uniform Illumination Across Space and Time in VLC With Dimming Control

Indoor visible light communications (VLC) require simultaneous illumination and communication. Hence, uniformity in the illumination is a key consideration for user comfort and data transfer in the VLC systems. Several run-length-limited codes have been proposed in the literature that mitigate flick...

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Main Authors: Uday Thummaluri, Abhinav Kumar, Lakshmi Natarajan
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Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
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description Indoor visible light communications (VLC) require simultaneous illumination and communication. Hence, uniformity in the illumination is a key consideration for user comfort and data transfer in the VLC systems. Several run-length-limited codes have been proposed in the literature that mitigate flicker for single-input and single-output VLC systems. Recently, codes have been proposed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) VLC systems. However, uniform illumination along with dimming control has not been considered for MIMO VLC systems. Hence, in this paper, we propose codes with generalized algorithms for encoding and decoding that maintain consistency in the illumination across space and time and achieve the desired dimming level. We present the expressions for code rate, run-length, and Hamming distance for the proposed codes. Through Monte Carlo simulations, we compare the code matrix error rate (CER) performance of the proposed codes with zero-forcing, minimum mean square error, and maximum likelihood based detectors for various number of transmit and receive antennas. We also compare the mutual information of the proposed codes for various number of transmit and receive antennas. The numerical results show that the proposed codes exhibit good performance while satisfying the design criteria.
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spelling doaj-art-b8e61db93b2248d39d91a66dd68dd90a2025-08-20T03:33:11ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552019-01-0111312110.1109/JPHOT.2019.29180638718557MIMO Codes for Uniform Illumination Across Space and Time in VLC With Dimming ControlUday Thummaluri0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9780-2549Abhinav Kumar1Lakshmi Natarajan2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-5240Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, IndiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, IndiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, IndiaIndoor visible light communications (VLC) require simultaneous illumination and communication. Hence, uniformity in the illumination is a key consideration for user comfort and data transfer in the VLC systems. Several run-length-limited codes have been proposed in the literature that mitigate flicker for single-input and single-output VLC systems. Recently, codes have been proposed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) VLC systems. However, uniform illumination along with dimming control has not been considered for MIMO VLC systems. Hence, in this paper, we propose codes with generalized algorithms for encoding and decoding that maintain consistency in the illumination across space and time and achieve the desired dimming level. We present the expressions for code rate, run-length, and Hamming distance for the proposed codes. Through Monte Carlo simulations, we compare the code matrix error rate (CER) performance of the proposed codes with zero-forcing, minimum mean square error, and maximum likelihood based detectors for various number of transmit and receive antennas. We also compare the mutual information of the proposed codes for various number of transmit and receive antennas. The numerical results show that the proposed codes exhibit good performance while satisfying the design criteria.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8718557/Code designcode ratecode matrix error rate (CER)Hamming distancemultiple input multiple output (MIMO)mutual information
spellingShingle Uday Thummaluri
Abhinav Kumar
Lakshmi Natarajan
MIMO Codes for Uniform Illumination Across Space and Time in VLC With Dimming Control
IEEE Photonics Journal
Code design
code rate
code matrix error rate (CER)
Hamming distance
multiple input multiple output (MIMO)
mutual information
title MIMO Codes for Uniform Illumination Across Space and Time in VLC With Dimming Control
title_full MIMO Codes for Uniform Illumination Across Space and Time in VLC With Dimming Control
title_fullStr MIMO Codes for Uniform Illumination Across Space and Time in VLC With Dimming Control
title_full_unstemmed MIMO Codes for Uniform Illumination Across Space and Time in VLC With Dimming Control
title_short MIMO Codes for Uniform Illumination Across Space and Time in VLC With Dimming Control
title_sort mimo codes for uniform illumination across space and time in vlc with dimming control
topic Code design
code rate
code matrix error rate (CER)
Hamming distance
multiple input multiple output (MIMO)
mutual information
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8718557/
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