Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Fog on Optical Camera-based VLC for a Vehicular Environment

Elizabeth Eso; Andrew Burton; Navid Bani Hassan; Mojtaba Mansour Abadi; Zabih Ghassemlooy; Stanislav Zvanovec

doi:10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848552

Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Fog on Optical Camera-based VLC for a Vehicular Environment

Elizabeth Eso, Andrew Burton, Navid Bani Hassan, Mojtaba Mansour Abadi, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Stanislav Zvanovec

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The widespread increase in the use of light emitting diodes in vehicle’s head and taillights and also the use of dashboard cameras provides great prospects for the optical camera based visible light communications (VLC) technology in intelligent transport systems. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the impact of fog on the optical camera based VLC technology for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. A range of meteorological visibilities between 5–120 m is considered based on realistic inter-vehicle distances in practical vehicular environments and using a real car taillight as the transmitter. We show a reduction in the index of modulation of the signals from 1 to 0.75 and 0.5 to allow for tracking purposes of the light source when sending ‘0’ symbols. The results show that, the link is error-free up to 20 m meteorological visibility for the three modulation index scenarios and degrades considerably below 10 m meteorological visibility.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)
Subtitle of host publication	Graz, Austria, 3-5 July 2019.
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728120911
ISBN (Print)	9781728120928
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848552
Publication status	Published - Jul 2019
Event	2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL) - Graz, Austria Duration: 3 Jul 2019 → 5 Jul 2019

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Conference	2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)
Period	3/07/19 → 5/07/19

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Optical camera
intelligent transport system
VLC technology
meteorological visibility
fog

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Eso, E, Burton, A, Hassan, NB, Abadi, MM, Ghassemlooy, Z & Zvanovec, S 2019, Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Fog on Optical Camera-based VLC for a Vehicular Environment. in 2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL): Graz, Austria, 3-5 July 2019.. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1-5, 2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL), 3/07/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2019.8848552

Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Fog on Optical Camera-based VLC for a Vehicular Environment. / Eso, Elizabeth; Burton, Andrew; Hassan, Navid Bani et al.
2019 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL): Graz, Austria, 3-5 July 2019.. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2019. p. 1-5.

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