Visible Light Communications Using OFDM and Multiple LEDs

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4304-4313

  Mossaad, Mohammed S A ^a   Hranilovic, Steve ^a   Lampe, Lutz ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

optical OFDM; peak To Average power ratio; visible light communications

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION;

ERROR RATE PERFORMANCE; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATION LINKS; MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEME; OPTICAL OFDM; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; SOLID STATE ILLUMINATION; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS (VLC);

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84959525826     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2469285     Document Type: Article

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