Evolutionary Algorithm Based Power Coverage Optimization for Visible Light Communications

Abstract

Inherent multipath diffuse channel characteristics inhibit visible light communications (VLC) system to provide uniform and satisfactory communication performance within the room domain. An evolutionary algorithm based optimization scheme is proposed to modify the optical intensity of LED transmitters for reducing the signal power fluctuation extent. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can efficiently reduce the signal power dynamic range up to 26.5% while the SNR is still sufficient for keeping BER<;10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-6</sup> (using OOK-NRZ modulation format).