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  • Intra-Frame Bidirectional Transmission in Networks of Visible LEDs
    IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking, 2016
    Co-Authors: Qing Wang, Domenico Giustiniano
    Abstract:

    The optical antenna’s directionality of nodes forming a visible light communication (VLC) network, i.e., their field-of-view (FOV), varies greatly from device to device. This encompasses wide FOVs of ambient light infrastructure and directional FOVs of light from low-end embedded devices. This variety of light propagation can severely affect the Transmission reliability, despite pointing the devices to each other may seem enough for a reliable communication. The presence of interference among nodes with different FOVs makes traditional access protocols in VLC unreliable, and it also exacerbates the hidden-node problem. In this paper, we propose a carrier sensing multiple access/collision detection and hidden avoidance (CSMA/CD-HA) medium access control protocol for a network, where each node solely uses one light-emitting diode to transmit and receive data. The CSMA/CD-HA can enable in-band intra-frame Bidirectional Transmission with just one optical antenna. The key idea is to exploit the intra-frame data symbols without the emission of light to introduce an embedded communication channel. This approach enables the Transmission of additional data while receiving in the same optical frequency band, and it makes the communication robust to different types of FOVs. We implement the CSMA/CD-HA protocol in a software-defined embedded platform running Linux, and evaluate its performance through analysis and experiments. Results show that collisions caused by hidden nodes can largely be reduced, and our protocol can increase the saturation throughput by nearly up to 50% and 100% under the two- and four-node scenarios, respectively.

  • communication networks of visible light emitting diodes with intra frame Bidirectional Transmission
    Conference on Emerging Network Experiment and Technology, 2014
    Co-Authors: Qing Wang, Domenico Giustiniano
    Abstract:

    Unlike traditional radio frequency communication of consumer devices, the "optical antenna" direction of Visible Light Communication (VLC), i.e., the Field-Of-View (FOV), varies greatly from device to device. This encompasses wide FOVs of ambient infrastructure and directional FOVs of light emitted by low-end embedded devices. This variety of light wave propagation can severely affect the Transmission reliability, despite ``pointing'' devices to each other may seem enough for a reliable link. In particular, the fact that FOVs are unknown makes traditional access protocols in VLC unreliable in presence of interference among nodes of different FOVs and exacerbates the hidden-node problem. In this paper, we propose a Carrier Sensing Multiple Access/Collision Detection&Hidden Avoidance (CSMA/CD-HA) Medium Access Control protocol for a network where each node solely uses one Light Emitting Diode (LED) to transmit and receive data. The CSMA/CD-HA can enable in-band intra-frame Bidirectional Transmission with just one optical antenna. The key idea is to exploit the intra-frame data symbols without emission of light to introduce an embedded communication channel. This approach enables the Transmission of additional data while receiving in the same optical channel and it makes the communication robust to different types of FOVs. We build a software-defined embedded platform running on Linux operating system, implement the CSMA/CD-HA protocol, and evaluate its performance through experiments. Results show that collisions caused by hidden nodes can be reduced and our protocol can increase the saturation throughput by nearly up to 50% and 100% under the two-node and four-node scenarios, respectively.

  • CoNEXT - Communication Networks of Visible Light Emitting Diodes with Intra-Frame Bidirectional Transmission
    Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, 2014
    Co-Authors: Qing Wang, Domenico Giustiniano
    Abstract:

    Unlike traditional radio frequency communication of consumer devices, the "optical antenna" direction of Visible Light Communication (VLC), i.e., the Field-Of-View (FOV), varies greatly from device to device. This encompasses wide FOVs of ambient infrastructure and directional FOVs of light emitted by low-end embedded devices. This variety of light wave propagation can severely affect the Transmission reliability, despite ``pointing'' devices to each other may seem enough for a reliable link. In particular, the fact that FOVs are unknown makes traditional access protocols in VLC unreliable in presence of interference among nodes of different FOVs and exacerbates the hidden-node problem. In this paper, we propose a Carrier Sensing Multiple Access/Collision Detection&Hidden Avoidance (CSMA/CD-HA) Medium Access Control protocol for a network where each node solely uses one Light Emitting Diode (LED) to transmit and receive data. The CSMA/CD-HA can enable in-band intra-frame Bidirectional Transmission with just one optical antenna. The key idea is to exploit the intra-frame data symbols without emission of light to introduce an embedded communication channel. This approach enables the Transmission of additional data while receiving in the same optical channel and it makes the communication robust to different types of FOVs. We build a software-defined embedded platform running on Linux operating system, implement the CSMA/CD-HA protocol, and evaluate its performance through experiments. Results show that collisions caused by hidden nodes can be reduced and our protocol can increase the saturation throughput by nearly up to 50% and 100% under the two-node and four-node scenarios, respectively.