Physical Layer Security For Indoor Multicolor Visible Light Communication

Abstract

Visible light communication (VLC) is a short-range wireless optical communication that can transmit data by switching lighting elements at high speeds in indoor areas. In common areas, VLC can provide data security at every layer of communication by using physical layer security (PLS) techniques as well as existing cryptography-based techniques. In the literature, PLS techniques have generally been studied for monochrome VLC systems, and multicolor VLC studies are quite limited. In this study, to the best of authors’ knowledge, null steering (NS) and artificial noise (AN), which are widely used PLS methods, have been applied to multi-colored LED-based VLC systems for the first time in the literature and the achievable secrecy rate has been calculated.