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VLCS '16: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Visible Light Communication Systems
ACM2016 Proceeding
Publisher:
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • New York
  • NY
  • United States
Conference:
MobiCom'16: The 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking New York City New York October 3 - 7, 2016
ISBN:
978-1-4503-4253-7
Published:
03 October 2016
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Abstract

VLCS'16 continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of visible light communication technology, including signal processing, system design, network architecture, and emerging application. The mission of VLCS offers researchers and practitioners an open platform to exchange their latest findings, perspectives and experiences with others interested in the various aspects of visible light communication technology.

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SESSION: Visible light communication
research-article
Clipping noise cancellation based on compressed sensing for visible light communication

In visible light communication, the clipping noise, which could cause out-of-band radiation and increase bit error rate performance in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, is necessary to be mitigated. In this paper, a clipping ...

research-article
Optimal multi-element VLC bulb design with power and lighting quality constraints

In the modern era of radio frequency (RF) spectrum crunch, visible light communication (VLC) offers a promising alternative. Thanks to its unlicensed and large bandwidth, VLC technology can deliver high throughput, energy efficient and low cost data ...

research-article
modBulb: a modular light bulb for visible light communication

Due to several interesting properties such as large bandwidth and immunity against radio interference, Visible Light Communication (VLC) has caught the attention of the research community. Current efforts are, however, hampered by the lack of open ...

research-article
Opportunities and pitfalls in securing visible light communication on the physical layer

Securing visible light communication (VLC) systems on the physical layer promises to prevent against a variety of attacks. Recent work shows that the adaption of existing legacy radio wave physical layer security (PLS) mechanisms is possible with minor ...

PANEL SESSION: VLC networks
research-article
Public Access
Diversity combining and piezoelectric beam steering for multi-element VLC networks

Visible light communications (VLC) is an emerging wireless communication technology that can serve high speed data rates by using existing lighting infrastructure without congesting the radio spectrum. This paper studies the effect of various multi-...

research-article
PLiFi: hybrid wifi-VLC networking using power lines

With advancements in solid-state lighting, Visible Light Communication (VLC) provides novel opportunities for high-speed networking. Properties such as feasibility of multi-gbps data rates, lower interference, better communication privacy, and dual use ...

research-article
High-speed mobile networking through hybrid mmWave-camera communications

The millimeter wave spectrum (mmWave) is already a forerunner for next-generation high-speed mobile networking due to its huge bandwidth availability, capable of Gbits/sec data rates. However, due to its high frequency, mmWave communication suffers from ...

PANEL SESSION: Applications of VLC
research-article
Visible light based activity sensing using ceiling photosensors

This paper explores the feasibility of tracking motion and activities of humans using visible light. Shadows created by casting visible light on humans and objects are sensed using sensors that are embedded along with the light sources. Existing Visible ...

research-article
Public Access
Towards a visible light network architecture for continuous communication and localization

Visible light communication (VLC) technology piggybacks on legacy illumination infrastructure, and creates a communication channel by modulating LEDs' light emission patterns. Existing VLC research mostly focused on improving single link communication ...

research-article
Unleashing the power of LED-to-camera communications for IoT devices

In this paper, we propose a line of sight LED-to-camera communication system based on a small color LED and a smartphone. We design a cheap prototype as proof of concept of a near communication framework for the Internet of Things. We evaluate the ...

research-article
Using smartphones as continuous receivers in a visible light communication system

Visible Light Communication (VLC) allows to reuse a lighting infrastructure for communication while its main purpose of illumination can be carried out at the same time. Light sources based on Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are attractive as they are ...

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  • Dartmouth College

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      Acceptance Rates

      VLCS '16 Paper Acceptance Rate 13 of 20 submissions, 65%;
      Overall Acceptance Rate 21 of 28 submissions, 75%
      YearSubmittedAcceptedRate
      VLCS '16201365%
      VLCS '1488100%
      Overall282175%