Visible Light Communication, Networking, and Sensing: A Survey, Potential and Challenges

By Parth H. Pathak, Xiaotao Feng, Pengfei Hu, Prasant Mohapatra. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2015

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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Physical-Layer Security of 5G Wireless Networks for IoT: Challenges and Opportunities (2019, background): “tial solution to support the 5G IoT with higher data rates, massive device connectivity, higher energy efficiency, lower traffic fees, and ultralow latency [81], [82].”
White Paper on Broadband Connectivity in 6G (2020, background): “Here, we focus on visible light communication (VLC), or OWC in the visible light spectrum, which is a promising technology to provide broadband local connectivity [84].”
A Survey of Positioning Systems Using Visible LED Lights (2018, background): “During recent years, many in-depth surveys on VLC have been published [12]–[14], [22].”
A Survey on Green 6G Network: Architecture and Technologies (2019, background): “enables data to be encoded in emitted light in a variety of ways [55].”
Rational design of type-II nano-heterojunctions for nanoscale optoelectronics (2020, background): “Among different modulation schemes, the Color Shift Modulation (CSK) holds great potential, particularly for high data-rate applications [294].”
Terahertz Band: The Last Piece of RF Spectrum Puzzle for Communication Systems (2019, background): “Such misalignment results in a significant drop in the received optical power [189].”
Towards 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies (2019, background): “…(LED) luminaries. the following paragraphs, we will focus on the two novel spectrum bands that will be used in 6G. Terahertz communications operate These devices can indeed quickly switch between different light intensities to modulate a signal which can be transmitted to a proper receiver [11].”
6G Wireless Networks: Vision, Requirements, Architecture, and Key Technologies (2019, background): “On the other hand, VLC [12], working in the frequency range of 400–800 THz, is another promising technique for 6G and uses visible light generated by illuminant-like LEDs to transmit data.”
The Road Towards 6G: A Comprehensive Survey (2021, background): “non-imaging receivers are extremely sensitive to their spatial alignments with the transmitters, while imaging receivers are not applicable in cost-critical use cases for their high prices [77].”
Wireless Networks Design in the Era of Deep Learning: Model-Based, AI-Based, or Both? (2019, background): “Among others, we mention optical wireless communications [31], [32], which promise very high data rates by communicating over the visible spectrum, and molecular communications, which are not based on electromagnetic waves but exploit chemical signals as information carriers, thus enabling communica”
An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Terahertz Communications (2020, background): “On the other hand, compared to visible light communications (VLC) [24], [25], THz signals are not severely affected by”
Vision, Requirements, and Technology Trend of 6G: How to Tackle the Challenges of System Coverage, Capacity, User Data-Rate and Movement Speed (2020, background): “The corresponding THz communications and visible light communications (VLC) are two promising technologies for 6G and beyond [4].”
A Survey of the State-of-the-Art Localization Techniques and Their Potentials for Autonomous Vehicle Applications (2018, methodology): “This enables transmission of data in V2I application via traffic and street lights with ranges of 50–100 m [83] and in V2V applications via headlamp and taillights with”
Current Challenges for Visible Light Communications Usage in Vehicle Applications: A Survey (2017, background): “Detailed information regarding other modulation techniques used in VLC applications can be found in [17]–[19].”
Indoor Positioning Systems Based on Visible Light Communication: State of the Art (2017, background): “the channel is divided into multiple orthogonal subcarriers which transmit parallel data streams simultaneously [31].”
Enabling Massive IoT Toward 6G: A Comprehensive Survey (2021, background): “The communication through visible light holds special advantages when compared to the other existing forms of wireless communications, such as several tens of Gbps data rate [66], cost efﬁciency [67], security [65], and large geographical distribution [65].”