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A Comprehensive Survey of Visible Light Communication: Potential and Challenges

Authors: Sanjeev Kumar, Preeti Singh

Published in: Wireless Personal Communications | Issue 2/2019

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Visible light communication (VLC) is seen as a potential candidate for next generation communication networks. In the last decade VLC has emerged out as complementary technology to radio frequency wireless communication according to different requirements and applications. This technology can be considered as a valuable contributor to the present communication networks issues like spectrum congestion and system’s capacity. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the VLC system. The various benefits and applications of VLC system along with the possibility for the next generation communication systems has been discussed. Different modulation techniques are discussed and comparison is also provide with MATLAB simulations. It also provides comprehensive review of various challenges faced by VLC system.

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Title: A Comprehensive Survey of Visible Light Communication: Potential and Challenges
Authors: Sanjeev Kumar
Preeti Singh
Publication date: 20-05-2019
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Wireless Personal Communications / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 0929-6212
Electronic ISSN: 1572-834X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-019-06616-3

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