TY - GEN
T1 - Performance Analysis of Indoor Vehicular VLC Links for Autonomous Driving
AU - Eso, Elizabeth
AU - Jarchlo, Elnaz Alizadeh
AU - Ghassemlooy, Zabih
AU - Zvanovec, Stanislav
AU - Dressler, Falko
AU - Sathian, Juna
N1 - Funding Information:
VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programe under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no 764461 (VisIoN). It is also based upon work from COST Action CA19111 NEW-FOCUS, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programe under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no 764461.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/9/13
Y1 - 2021/9/13
N2 - One of the major challenges in indoor vehicular visible light communications (VVLC) links is associated with the mobility leading to frequent handovers, consequently resulting in increased latency and processing time. Therefore, to address this challenge, an acceptable light coverage within the indoor channel, i.e., cell planning, is of paramount importance. In this paper we investigate the performance of a VLC link for an autonomous indoor vehicle and provide insights on the impact of the distance between light access points, and the light client's (LC's) angular field of view (AFOV) employing an imaging optical concentrator with a photodiode. We derive a mathematical expression to determine the optimum AFOV of the LC as a function of other system parameters such as the vertical link distance and incidence angles. Results show step responses in the bit-error-rate (BER) performance as the incidence angle increases outside the AFOV of the LC with the BER degrading sharply from 3.8 × 10-3 to 4.4 × 10-1 with a small increment in the incidence angle over 7.35 °.
AB - One of the major challenges in indoor vehicular visible light communications (VVLC) links is associated with the mobility leading to frequent handovers, consequently resulting in increased latency and processing time. Therefore, to address this challenge, an acceptable light coverage within the indoor channel, i.e., cell planning, is of paramount importance. In this paper we investigate the performance of a VLC link for an autonomous indoor vehicle and provide insights on the impact of the distance between light access points, and the light client's (LC's) angular field of view (AFOV) employing an imaging optical concentrator with a photodiode. We derive a mathematical expression to determine the optimum AFOV of the LC as a function of other system parameters such as the vertical link distance and incidence angles. Results show step responses in the bit-error-rate (BER) performance as the incidence angle increases outside the AFOV of the LC with the BER degrading sharply from 3.8 × 10-3 to 4.4 × 10-1 with a small increment in the incidence angle over 7.35 °.
KW - acceptable light coverage
KW - angular field of view
KW - light access point
KW - Vehicular visible light communications
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U2 - 10.1109/PIMRC50174.2021.9569513
DO - 10.1109/PIMRC50174.2021.9569513
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118428633
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC
BT - 2021 IEEE 32nd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 32nd IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2021
Y2 - 13 September 2021 through 16 September 2021
ER -