Visible Light Communications

Short-Range Wireless Communications: Emerging Technologies and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 329-342

  O'Brien, Dominic ^a   Zeng, Lubin ^a   Le Minh, Hoa ^a   Faulkner, Grahame ^a   Bouchet, Olivier ^b   Randel, Sebastien ^c   Walewski, Joachim ^c   Rabadan Borges, Jose A ^d   Langer, Klaus Dieter ^e   Grubor, Jelena ^e   Lee, Kyungwoo ^f   Tae Won, Eun ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TELECOMBretagne   (France)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^e FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Discrete Multitone Modulation (DMT); Lighting community and efficiency of SSL sources; Point to point links; Short range data links; Technical challenges of implementing VLC associated with transmission bandwidth; Visible Light Communication (VLC) LEDs and sources for Solid state Lighting (SSL); VLC channel technical constraints and challenges

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889312509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470740125.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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