Ray tracing based channel modeling for visible light communications

Elham Sarbazi, Murat Uysal, Mohamed Abdallah, Khalid Qaraqe

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Abstract

In this paper, we characterize visible light communication channels through Zemax®13 software. In our approach, we create a three dimensional indoor environment with specified dimensions in Zemax® and integrate the lighting source (i.e., LED). Using the ray tracing features of Zemax®, we compute the received optical power and the delays of direct/indirect rays. This information is then imported into Matlab® and the corresponding channel impulse response (CIR) for that environment is obtained through proper normalizations. Following this methodology, we present CIRs for a number of rooms with different sizes assuming different transmitter/receiver locations and quantify channel parameters such as mean excess delay, RMS delay spread and DC gain.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2014 22nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2014 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages702-705
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781479948741
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 22nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2014 - Trabzon, Turkey
Duration: Apr 23 2014Apr 25 2014

Publication series

Name2014 22nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2014 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2014 22nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2014
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityTrabzon
Period4/23/144/25/14

Keywords

  • Visible Light Communications
  • channel modeling
  • ray-tracing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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