Implementation and experimental demonstration of a real-time 7-DSSS VLC system based on FPGA

Qingbo Chen, Min Zhang, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Pengfei Luo, Dahai Han, Bo Zhang

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    Abstract

    In this paper, a real-time seven-direct-sequence spread-spectrum (7-DSSS) visible light communications (VLC) system based on field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) is implemented and experimentally demonstrated. We add interference light in our field experiments to build the multipath environment. And then, we measure the bit error rate performance of both on and off keying (OOK) and 7-DSSS VLC systems for different bit rates over a transmission distance of 1.5 m. The results show that using the DSSS technique in VLC system the multipath induced interference is suppressed thus leading to improved performance.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 15th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN)
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages1-3
    ISBN (Print)9781509034918
    DOIs
    Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 13 Mar 2017
    Event15th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) - Hangzhou
    Duration: 13 Mar 2017 → …

    Conference

    Conference15th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN)
    Period13/03/17 → …

    Keywords

    • multipath interference
    • real-time
    • seven-direct-sequence spread-spectrum
    • visible light communications
    • bit error rate

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