NI cDAQ based software-defined radio for visible light communication system

Arslan Khalid, Hafiz M. Asif, Nesruminallah

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Abstract

With the emergence of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), Visible Light Communication (VLC) has become an emerging technology for short range data communication. In this paper, a complete VLC software defined radio (SDR) transceiver is implemented on National Instrument (NI) cDAQ modules programmed in LabVIEW/MATLAB. The transceiver design mainly consists of VLC transmitter, receiver and interfacing of cDAQ modules. The major blocks of VLC transmitter comprise Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) to improve the signal quality. The novelty in the designed prototype is that it is capable of compensating errors over a distance of 1 meter in a brightly lit room. Over and above physical system, simulation programs are also developed to investigate the impact of line-ofsight (LOS) VLC channel. In order to investigate VLC channel, Bit-Error-Rate (BER) performance is carried out to compare the proposed system with traditional VLC system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2017 2nd Workshop on Recent Trends in Telecommunications Research, RTTR 2017
EditorsSerge Demidenko, Xiang Gui, Faraz Hasan, Fakhrul Alam, Mohammad Rashid
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509055418
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 27 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd Workshop on Recent Trends in Telecommunications Research, RTTR 2017 - Palmerston North, New Zealand
Duration: Feb 10 2017 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2017 2nd Workshop on Recent Trends in Telecommunications Research, RTTR 2017

Conference

Conference2nd Workshop on Recent Trends in Telecommunications Research, RTTR 2017
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityPalmerston North
Period2/10/17 → …

Keywords

  • Line-of-sight (LOS)
  • Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA)
  • Software Defined Radio (SDR).
  • Visible Light Communication (VLC)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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