Channel Modeling and Characterization for Visible Light Communications

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Miramirkhani, Farshad ^a   Uysal, Murat ^a  

^a OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

channel modeling; ray tracing; Visible light communications

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LIGHT; PLASTER; RAY TRACING; SPECIFICATIONS; TRANSMITTERS; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION;

CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE; CHANNEL MODEL; CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES; COHERENCE BANDWIDTH; MULTIPLE TRANSMITTERS; REFLECTION CHARACTERISTICS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DELAYS;

CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 84969972367     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2504238     Document Type: Article

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