Proposal of cost-efficient and low-complexity platform for software defined visible light communication

Abstract

With the increasing popularity of LED lighting and a growing demand for bandwidth in wireless communication, the visible light communication (VLC) is one of the promising scheme for addressing the bottleneck in the emerging broadband access networks. For research in the field of VLC focused on solutions of contradiction between massive available bandwidth and limited modulation bandwidth of LED, the purpose of this paper is to design an VLC experiment platform with characteristics of high flexibility and rapid productization. As a result, this platform not only expand the concept of software defined communication, but has the advantage of simple structure and low cost.