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Suboptimal LED selection for distributed MIMO visible light communications

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Driven by the increase in Internet of Things (IoT) devices for smart home technologies, visible light communications (VLC) using multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs) have been attracting much attention in order to cope with depleted radio frequency spectrum. This paper presents a suboptimal LED selection algorithm for distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) VLC systems. When total ceiling LEDs are turned on to send information while illuminating an indoor environment, the problems of low energy efficiency and mutual interference between VLC channels arise. The proposed algorithm begins by selecting the LED associated with the largest VLC channel gain and adds the LED supporting the largest level of uncorrelation with the maximum VLC channel gain in each step. Simulation results showed that the proposed scheme achieves a capacity similar to an optimal selection algorithm with reduced computational complexity. With a larger distance between the light terminals and a shorter distance between the LEDs, better channel capacity performance of the proposed scheme can be achieved.

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This research was supported by the Academic Research fund of Hoseo University in 2016 (2016-0041).

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  1. Department of ICT Automotive Engineering, Hoseo University, 201, Sandan 7-ro, Seongmun-myeon, Dangjin-si, Chungcheongnam-do, 31702, Republic of Korea

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Kim, B. Suboptimal LED selection for distributed MIMO visible light communications. Pers Ubiquit Comput 22, 105–110 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1080-7

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