Dimming Control Scheme of Visible Light Communication Based on Joint Multilevel Time-Shifted Coding

Abstract

Dimming control is an essential objection in the signal designing of visible light communication (VLC), which requires improving the communication performance of the system as much as possible while considering the illumination quality. Here, we studied the problem of high-efficiency transmission in an indoor VLC multi-core light-emitting diode (LED) communication model while considering dimming constraints, and propose a dimming method based on joint multilevel multi-LED time-shifted coding (ML-MTSC). The scheme utilizes the code structure of time-shifted space–time codes to encode and uses pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) to expand it to achieve the dimming control function in the proposed scenario. Simulation results show that the ML-MTSC dimming control scheme proposed in this paper has improved spectral efficiency and error performance compared with the traditional scheme.