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Short-range optical wireless: theory and applications
Contents:
1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Organization
References
2 Fundamentals of optical wireless communications
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Communications blocks in an OWC system
2.3 Intensity modulation/direct detection (IM/DD)
2.4 Optical transmitters
2.5 Optical receivers
2.6 Optical wireless channel propagation characteristics
2.7 Conclusions
References
3 Indoor optical wireless channel modeling methods
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Source and receiver configurations
3.3 Steps for modeling of indoor OWC environment
3.4 Models of the room and other reflecting surfaces
3.5 Radiation patterns
3.6 Received power from LOS links
3.7 Received power from NLOS links
3.8 Conclusions
References
4 Analyses of indoor optical channels based on channel impulse responses
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Analyses of optical wireless chanel impulse responses
4.3 Effects of furniture on root-mean-square delay spread
4.4 SNR calculations and BER performance
4.5 Impact of higher order reflections
4.6 Conclusions
References
5 Bit-error-rate distribution and outage of indoor optical wireless communications systems
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Simulation parameters
5.3 Optimal detection and BER outage analysis
5.4 Simulation results (receiver FOV = 60)
5.5 Simulation results (receiver FOV = 30)
5.6 Analytical results and comparisons
5.7 Conclusions
References
6 Orthogonal frequency-division multiolexing (OFDM) for indoor optical wireless communications
6.1 Introduction
6.2 OFDM overview
6.3 OFDM-based OW systems
6.4 Precoding and PAPR reduction in AC OFDM OW systems
6.5 Performance of AC OFDM systems in AWGN and multipath channel
6.6 Conclusions
References
7 MIMO technology for optical wireless communications using LED arrays and fly-eye receivers
7.1 Introduction
7.2 MIMO configurations
7.3 Angel-diversity receivers
7.4 Simulation results and discussions
7.5 Conclusions
References
8 Wireless solutions for aircrafts based on optical wireless communiactions and power line
communications
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Powerline communications channel model
8.3 Optical wireless communications
8.4 Wireless applications for commercial airplanes
8.5 Conclusions
References
9 Multispot diffusing transmitters using holographic diffusers for infrared beams and receivers
using holographic mirrors
9.1 Introduction
9.2 CGH for intensity-weighted spot arrays
9.3 Communication cells for multisport diffusing configuration
9.4 Receiver optical front-end
9.5 Wave propagation through materials and metamaterials and relation
9.6 Conclusions
References
10 Indoor positioning methods using VLC LEDs
10.1 Motivation
10.2 Positioning algorithms and solutions
10.3 An asynchronous indoor positioning system based on VLC LED
10.4 Conclusions
References
Index
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