Hardware Architectures of Visible Light Communication Transmitter and Receiver for Beacon-based Indoor Positioning Systems

  • Phuc Duc Nguyen Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology
  • Dinh-Dung Le Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
  • Thi-Hong Tran Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
  • Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21553/rev-jec.234

Abstract

High-speed applications of Visible Light Communications have been presented recently in which response times of photodiode-based VLC receivers are critical points. Typical VLC receiver routines, such as soft-decoding of run-length limited (RLL) codes and FEC codes was purely processed on embedded firmware, and potentially cause bottleneck at the receiver. To speed up the performance of receivers, ASIC-based VLC receiver could be the solution. Unfortunately, recent works on soft-decoding of RLL and FEC have shown that they are bulky and time-consuming computations. This causes hardware implementation of VLC receivers becomes heavy and unrealistic. In this paper, we introduce a compact Polar-code-based VLC receivers. in which flicker mitigation of the system can be guaranteed even without RLL codes. In particular, we utilized the centralized bit-probability distribution of a pre-scrambler and a Polar encoder to create a non-RLL flicker mitigation solution. At the receiver, a 3-bit soft-decision filter was implemented to analyze signals received from the VLC channel to extract log-likelihood ratio (LLR) values and feed them to the Polar decoder. Therefore, the proposed receiver could exploit the soft-decoding of the Polar decoder to improve the error-correction performance of the system. Due to the non-RLL characteristic, the receiver has a preeminent code-rate and a reduced complexity compared with RLL-based receivers. We present the proposed VLC receiver along with a novel very-large-scale integration (VLSI) architecture, and a synthesis of our design using FPGA/ASIC synthesis tools.

Author Biography

Phuc Duc Nguyen, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology
Dr. Duc-Phuc NGUYEN was born in Vietnam in 1990. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications (honor program) in 2012, and Master degree in Electronics Engineering - Microelectronics in 2015, both from the University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMUS), Vietnam. From 2012 to 2015, He was a lecturer and researcher at Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications (FETEL), HCMUS. He received the Doctor of Engineeringdegree at Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan in 2018. Since October 2018, he's been affiliated with Faculty of Telecommunications, Posts and Telecommunication Institute of Technology, Ho Chi Minh Campus as a lecturer-researcher. He received the best paper award at ATC'18, and the best oral presentation awards at FOSCOM'18 and ICFCC'17.His research interests include Optical Wireless Communication (OWC), FPGA & VLSI-based design, Memory Controllers, Forward Error-Correction (FEC) Codes, Wireless Embedded Systems.He is currently a regular member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IEEE Young Professionalsand IEEE Photonics Society.

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Published
2020-01-09
Issue
Vol. 9, No. 3-4 (Jul-Dec, 2019)
Section
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