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Experimental Study on Flicker Mitigation in VLC using Pseudo Manchester Coding

VLC에서 Pseudo Manchester Coding을 사용한 Flicker 최소화에 관한 실험 연구

  • Received : 2014.09.04
  • Accepted : 2014.09.12
  • Published : 2014.09.30
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Abstract

Visible Light Communication is one of the promising technologies for wireless communication due to the possibility to use existing LED lightening infrastructure to transmit data. LED has the ability to turn on and off very fast enough that our human eyes can't recognize so it can be used to transmit data via visible light along with illumination. But it faces flicker problem due to the brightness discrepancies between '1' and '0' bit patterns inside a data frame. Various run length limited (RLL) coding scheme like Manchester code, 4B6B, 8B10B or VPPM can be used to solve flickering problem. So we propose pseudo Manchester codding which can transmit data without modifying LED modulator and demodulator circuit as well as solve flickering problem.

가시광통신은 기존에 설치된 LED등을 사용하기에 무선통신을 위한 방법 중의 하나이다. 본 논문은 이미지 처리 기술을 이용한 광카메라 통신(OCC: Optical Camera Communications) 기술을 제안한다. LED등은 빠른 속도로 on 및 off를 변경할 능력을 가지고 있기에 인간의 눈이 인지할 수 없을 정도로 일정한 조도와 함께 데이터를 전송해야 한다. 하나의 데이터 프레임에서 비트 '1' 및 '0' 사이의 밝기 불균형에 의해 flickering 문제가 발생한다. Manchester code, 4B6B, 8B10B 및 VPPM과 같은 다양한 Run length limited(RLL) coding 기법이 사용될 수 있지만 LED 변조기와 복조기 회로를 수정하는 것 없이 데이터를 전송할수 있는 pseudo Manchester codding을 제안한다.

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