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Experimental Demonstration of Long-reach 2×2 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Visible Light Communications Using an Image Sensor Receiver

이미지 센서 수신부를 이용한 장거리 2×2 MIMO LED 무선 가시광 통신 실험

  • 전종배 (경성대학교 전자공학과) ;
  • 김성만 (경성대학교 전자공학과)
  • Received : 2012.05.09
  • Accepted : 2012.07.26
  • Published : 2012.08.31
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Abstract

The current visible light communication (VLC) systems have a short transmission distance and a low data rate. To overcome this, we studied on the method of appling MIMO technology to VLC. However, it is difficult to apply the original MIMO technology used in RF frequency to wireless VLC. In VLC system, a lens can be used to separate the transmitted signals. And, if we use an image sensor as the receiver, MIMO technology can be applied to LED wireless visible light communication. In this paper, we report an experiment of $2{\times}2$ LED wireless visible light communication using a commercial image sensor receiver. We show the experimental demonstration with a transmission length of 10.5 m and a data rate of 200 bit/s.

기존의 LED (Light Emitting Diode)를 이용한 가시광 통신방식은 주로 수 m 의 짧은 전송거리와 수백 Mb/s 이하의 낮은 전송속도를 보여왔다. 이를 타개하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) 기술을 가시광 통신에 적용하고자 하는 연구를 수행하였다. 빛은 RF 주파수와는 물리적 특성이 다르기 때문에 기존의 RF 주파수에서 사용되던 MIMO 기술의 이론을 그대로 가시광 통신에 적용하기는 힘들다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 렌즈를 이용하여 물리적으로 광신호를 분리하고, 이미지 센서를 수신기로 사용하여 MIMO 기술을 구현하는 방식을 채택하였다. 본 논문에서는 상용 이미지센서를 이용하여 채널당 200 bit/s의 전송속도 및 전송거리 10.5 m의 장거리 $2{\times}2$ MIMO LED 무선 가시광 통신 실험을 구현하였다.

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