International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications (ICETC)
2023幎12æ
In this study, we propose the 1-bit ADC receiver that performs frequency conversion in the digital domain to simplify the circuitry in the receiver and reduce power consumption. Then, we evaluate the SNR vs. BER of the 1-bit ADC receiver we propose. In the proposed receiver, the average of the 1-bit ADC outputs in parallel is taken, the received signal is restored, and the baseband signal is demodulated by multiplying the restored received signal by the carrier wave.
R. Huang, T. Yamazato, M. Kinoshita, H. Okada, S. Arai, K. Kamakura, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
An essential issue in image sensor communication (ISC) is reliable and high-speed data transmission. In order to increase the data rate, this study uses pulse-width modulation (PWM). However, the symbol decision for PWM will become challenging with increasing numbers of luminance levels because of pixel saturation. In this study, we mitigate the pixel saturation problem by achieving high dynamic range (HDR) using two high-speed image sensors with varied exposure settings. Furthermore, we proposed HDR combining for signal demodulation. The field trial experiment results show that a throughput of higher than 87.5 kbps within the communication distance of 50 m can be achieved.
This paper proposes an image sensor communication (ISC) system based on light trails using rotary LEDs. The light trail refers to an optical phenomenon where light appears elongated and forms a trajectory due to the movement of luminous objects. In this study, we developed a propeller LED transmitter (P-Tx) that rotates LEDs with a propeller to generate and transmit light trail signals. According to the LED's rotation radius, the proposed system segments light trails to achieve high-capacity data transmission at short distances and high-trust transmission at long distances. In addition, we perform the rotation coordinates system conversion for the captured light trails to accurately and simply detect the signal LEDs' coordinates. We experimentally evaluate the proposed system's communication performance and data rate. The experimental results demonstrate that our system is capable of meeting communication requirements at various distances and exhibits significant potential in enhancing the data transmission rate of ISC.
This paper focuses on image sensor communication (ISC) using cameras to receive wireless signals transmitted by visible lights. We summarize the technical principles of ISC from the perspective of transmitting devices. An introduction to the development and applications of ISC was provided, starting with the history of image sensors and visible light communication (VLC). Moreover, the communication mechanism of ISC using complementary metalâoxideâsemiconductor (CMOS) sensors is explained in this paper. Specifically, we investigate studies using an optical communication image sensor and the rolling shutter technique for high-speed ISC. Further, we highlight three distinctive transmitting devices in ISC: a LED array, rotating LEDs, and displays, and explain them in terms of structure and signal transmission methods. In particular, we present the parallel transmission of LED arrays and their application in traffic systems and introduce an optical flow-based signal transmission method using rotating LEDs. In addition, two visual transmission techniques in displays-based-ISC using brightness-difference and high-frequency flashing are introduced, respectively. This paper intuitively explains these ISC techniques and reveals ISC's high versatility.
S. Kamiya, Z. Tang, T. Yamazato, M. Kinoshita, K. Kamakura, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
This paper presents the successful reception of visible light communication (VLC) signals, transmitted from an LED array, by an image sensor that utilizes a rolling shutter while driving at 40 km/h. The rolling shutter image sensors used in commercial cameras, such as those found in smartphones and dashcams, capture images line by line at a fast rate, allowing for VLC signal reception in vehicular environments. By analyzing the relationship between the signal reception rate for each line and the frame rate, we demonstrate that parallel VLC signals transmitted from the LED array can be received even while in motion. Notably, to our knowledge, this is the first time that an automobile moving at 40 km/h has successfully received a VLC signal.
M. Hattori, A. Tsujii, T. Kasashima, H. Hatano, T. Yamazato
This paper proposes MAP estimation using two temporally consecutive data using signals from eight ultrasonic sensors forming a linear array. First, we estimate the distance to the obstacle from the time difference between the eight received signals. Then, assuming that the ranging error follows a Gaussian distribution and that each of the eight ranging values is independent, we can get the existence probability of the obstacleâs position by a pair of two obtained distances. Finally, we estimate the position of the obstacle by multiplying 28 (8C2) existence probabilities obtained. The conventional method estimates the position of an obstacle by the above procedure. However, the estimation accuracy in the angular direction was poor, resulting in the spread of the existence probability in the horizontal direction. In the proposed MAP estimation using two temporally consecutive data, we obtain the existence probability of an obstacle by the procedure shown above, and then use it as a prior probability of the obstacleâs estimated position. Furthermore, we recursively perform the same process to obtain the existence probability of the obstacle. In this way, we improve the accuracy of the estimation of the position of the obstacle by the existence probability. We present the experiment results to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
J. Zheng, T. Yamazato, K. Naito
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications
This paper reports an extension of the private 5G service area to the outside of the licensed area by integrating visible light communication (VLC). As VLC is license-free, integrating the VLC function into the private 5G networks gives a more flexible system design. For example, it will be possible to provide services to mobile vehicles and robots working outside the service area of a private 5G network. Alternatively, private 5G networks in different locations can be connected. A challenge is integrating the VLC function into a 5G core network. We successfully designed a testbed and an experiment using open-source 5G projects to evaluate and compare methods to integrate VLC and private 5G, including the simulation of poor network environments. Experimental results demonstrate the availability of integrating private 5G with VLC, which are compared with image-based methods and show better latency performance.
T. Yamazato
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications
2023幎7æ
Visible light communications (VLC) is a promising technology for automotive applications because it offers several advantages over traditional wireless communication technologies using radio waves. For example, VLC is more secure, as it is difficult to intercept VLC signals, and VLC is more reliable, as VLC signals are less susceptible to interference from other signals. As a result of these advantages, VLC is being considered for various automotive applications, such as in-car infotainment and navigation systems, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and autonomous driving. In this talk, he will explain VLC for cars using image sensor communication, one of the VLCs that use a camera as a receiver.
R. Huang, M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, K. Kamakura, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, vol.E106-A, no.7, pp.990-997
Visible light communication (VLC) and visible light ranging are applicable techniques for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). They use every unique light-emitting diode (LED) on roads for data transmission and range estimation. The simultaneous VLC and ranging can be applied to improve the performance of both. It is necessary to achieve rapid data rate and high-accuracy ranging when transmitting VLC data and estimating the range simultaneously. We use the signal modulation method of pulse-width modulation (PWM) to increase the data rate. However, when using PWM for VLC data transmission, images of the LED transmitters are captured at different luminance levels and are easily saturated, and LED saturation leads to inaccurate range estimation. In this paper, we establish a novel simultaneous visible light communication and ranging system for ITS using PWM. Here, we analyze the LED saturation problems and apply bicubic interpolation to solve the LED saturation problem and thus, improve the communication and ranging performance. Simultaneous communication and ranging are enabled using a stereo camera. Communication is realized using maximal-ratio combining (MRC) while ranging is achieved using phase-only correlation (POC) and sinc function approximation. Furthermore, we measured the performance of our proposed system using a field trial experiment. The results show that error-free performance can be achieved up to a communication distance of 55 m and the range estimation errors are below 0.5 m within 60 m.
This paper proposes a new estimation method of short-term power delay profile to reduce the noise power included in the short-term power delay profile. By reducing the noise, the multipath signal components buried in the noise can be utilized, thereby reducing the transmitted signal power and extending the cell range of a mobile communications. The proposed method iteratively creates the short-term power delay profile while lowering the threshold which distinguishes between signal and noise. The purpose of the threshold is to suppress the noise in each profile and to extract the effective multipath components. Furthermore, the method aligns and averages the phase of each instantaneous delay profile. In this way, only the noise component can be reduced while maintaining a high multipath power. As a result, we successfully reduced the noise power by 15 dB by analyzing the raw data of 200 instantaneous delay profiles measured in the 50 MHz bands at 3.35 GHz. Furthermore, the delay spread increased from 0.66 ÎŒs to 1.47 ÎŒs.
H. Omote, A. Sato, S. Kimura, S. Tanaka, H. Y. Lin, T. Yamazato
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), pp. 1-4
High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) has recently been attracting much attention as a new mobile communication platform for ultra-wide coverage areas and disaster-resilient networks since it can provide communication services from an altitude of approximately 20 km via a balloon, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or other aircraft. In order to design efficient cell configurations for HAPS-based services, we need radio wave propagation models that consider various factors of vegetation, terrain, urban-suburban areas, and building entry loss. This paper focuses on propagation loss at high-elevation angles in urban and suburban areas. Recommendation ITU-R (International Telecommunication Union Radio communication sector) P.2108-1 describes the clutter loss model, which is the propagation loss caused by features such as buildings. The applicable frequency for ITU-R P.2108-1 is above 10 GHz; however, this model has no parameters for urban structure. Therefore, it needs to consider a correction for an urban structure to precisely evaluate clutter loss. We propose a new model that corrects Recommendation ITU-R P.2108 using shielding building heights as the urban structure. Since this new model was created based on measurements from 0.7 GHz to 5.7 GHz, the applicable frequencies are from 0.7 GHz to 5.7 GHz. Therefore, it is necessary to confirm whether the model applies to frequencies above 5.7 GHz. This paper compares the results of new propagation measurements at 29.3 GHz using a helicopter with the predicted results of the proposed model. The results show that the proposed model is applicable above 5.7 GHz.
Image sensor communication (ISC), also known as optical camera communication, is a form of visible light communication that utilizes image sensors rather than a single photodiode, for data reception. ISC offers spatial separation properties and robustness to ambient noise, making it suitable for outdoor applications such as intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). This review analyzes the research trends in ISC, specifically concerning its application in ITSs. Our focus is on various ISC receivers, including rolling shutter cameras, global shutter high-speed cameras, optical communication image sensors, and event cameras. We analyze how each of these receivers is being utilized in ISC vehicular applications. In addition, we highlight the use of ISC in range estimation techniques and the ability to achieve simultaneous communication and range estimation. By examining these topics, we aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the role of ISC technology in ITSs and its potential for future development.
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Using a rolling shutter camera as a receiver, visible light communication (VLC) can achieve a significantly higher sampling rate than the frame rate because of its sequential exposure mechanism. This study focuses on optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in a rolling shutter based VLC for further high-speed data rates. Because an image sensor is employed, conventional optical OFDM, such as DC-biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM), must fit in the grayscale range of 0â255 levels. Therefore, DCO-OFDM suffers from poor error performance owing to its high PAPR. To address this problem, we propose a polarity-separated transmission, in which the bipolar OFDM signal is separated into positive and negative parts and then transmitted by two LEDs simultaneously. Polarity-separated transmission is expected to double the grayscale range, i.e. 0â511, and improve error performance because it reconstructs the original bipolar signal by combining the received signals from two LEDs. We experimentally demonstrate and compare the symbol error rate (SER) performance of DCO-OFDM and polarity-separated transmissions. Consequently, polarity-separated transmission improved the SER performance by 10â 2 in the fundamental frequency range of 300â700 Hz when 16-PSK was adopted for subcarrier modulation.
1-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have low power consumption and can easily speed up the analog-to-digital conversion and sampling. However, due to their resolution of only 1 bit, the nonlinearity between the input with multiple amplitude levels and output is large. With the method of utilizing noise proposed in previous studies, 1-bit ADCs can be linearized to demodulate signals with multi-level amplitude modulation like pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). In this letter, we construct a receiver circuit using a 1-bit ADC, evaluate its performance, and show its availability through demodulation experiments on 4-PAM signals.
M. Hattori, A. Tsujii, T. Kasashima, H. Hatano, T. Yamazato
International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications (ICETC), O5-5, Waseda University
2022幎12æ
We are working on the measurement of obstacle positions by an ultrasonic sensor array. This paper proposes a recursive position estimation method using signals from eight ultrasonic sensors forming a linear array. First, we estimate the distance to the obstacle from the time difference between the eight received signals. Then, assuming that the ranging error follows a Gaussian distribution and that each of the eight ranging values is independent, we can get the existence probability of the obstacle's position by a pair of two obtained distances. Finally, we estimate the position of the obstacle by multiplying 28 (8C2) existence probabilities obtained. The conventional method estimates the position of an obstacle by the above procedure. However, the estimation accuracy in the angular direction was poor, resulting in the spread of the existence probability in the horizontal direction. In the proposed recursive position estimation, we obtain the existence probability of an obstacle by the procedure shown above, and then use it as the prior probability of the obstacle's estimated position. Furthermore, we recursively perform the same process to obtain the existence probability of the obstacle. In this way, we improve the accuracy of the estimation of the position of the obstacle by the existence probability. We present the experiment results to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
D. Ehara, Z. Tang, M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, K. Kamakura, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications (ICETC), S9-5, Tokyo
Most of the previous research on the acquisition of the LED Array transmitter assumes that the onboard receiver approaches the LED transmitter from the carâs front. In this study, we considered a case where the vehicleâs receiver crosses the LED transmitter. This letter modifies the algorithm using spatial-temporal gradient values to detect LED arrays. As a result, we achieved error-free acquisition and successfully communicated up to 9728 [bits] at a vehicle speed of 25 [km/h].
S. Kamiya, Z. Tang, T. Yamazato,
IEEE ICC Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC), Seoul, South Korea
2022幎5æ
In this study, we investigate the application of visible light communication (VLC) to intelligent transport systems (ITS) using rolling shutter image sensors as receivers. The use of a global shutter high-speed image sensor as a receiver has been widely examined in ITS-VLC so far. However, this image sensor is impractical for general-purpose applications due to the high cost. This study aims to perform ITS-VLC using the rolling shutter image sensor. The rolling shutter image sensor is widely used in the smartphone camera. By using it as a receiver, ITS-VLC can be used in more opportunities. In this study, we propose a ITSVLC system using rolling shutter image sensor. The proposed system demodulates data from images captured in a moving environment. We evaluate the communication performance by measuring the bit error rate for the ITS-VLC experiments.
Z. Tang,T. Yamazato, S. Arai
IEEE ICC Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC), Seoul, South Korea
2022幎5æ
This study investigates a new communication scheme for the event camera-based visible light communication (VLC) using a propeller-type rotary LED transmitter. Conventional camera-based VLC suffers from low data rates and high latency due to the limited camera frame rates. To solve this problem, the event camera has been used as the receiver in VLC. Event cameras detect changes in brightness and asynchronously output these changes as events in microsecond order. The high temporal resolution gives the event camera-based VLC good potential in terms of high speed and low latency. However, when an event camera is used as the VLC receiver, the light of the transmitter needs to be changed constantly. If the transmitter LED is continuously in the same blinking state, the event camera may not output any events and the data could not be recovered until the blinking state changes. To transmit the optical signal for event cameras, we use a propeller-type rotary LED transmitter for the event camera-based VLC. The transmitter rotates the blinking LED in circles and uses the afterimage of LED light to transmit signals. The event camera detects the afterimages and constantly outputs them as a stream of events. We filter the noise events and recover data using signal events. This study verifies the operation for the proposed system through an implementation experiment. As a result, we achieved the communication in the proposed system and provided a basic evaluation in terms of communication speed and quality.
This study proposes a simplified Alamouti-type space-time coding (STC), improving the performance of image sensor communication (ISC) using a rotary LED transmitter. The rotary LED transmitter was developed to increase the data rate of ISC using afterimages of LED lights. The transmitter simultaneously causes the LEDs to blink and rotates them around a vertical axis. Owing to the movement of the blinking LEDs that occurs within the exposure time of the camera, multiple blinking states are captured as afterimages, thus increasing the amount of information that can be received per image. However, with increasing communication distance, the size of the LED light captured on the image sensor decreases. In this case, it is difficult to distinguish each LED blinking state, leading to a degradation of the demodulation performance. To overcome this problem, the proposed STC encodes adjacent angular afterimages as symbol pairs and transmits these symbol pairs using two symbol times. In addition, we simplified the data decoding process by using normalized LED luminance values. We evaluate the demodulation performance of the proposed method through experiments. Compared with conventional coding methods, the proposed STC requires no channel estimation and significantly improves the demodulation performance.
M. Kinoshita, T. Toguma, S. Yamaguchi, S. Ibaraki, K. Kamakura, T. Yamazato
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), pp.843-847, online
Intelligent Transport Systems Visible Light Communication (ITS-VLC) is attracting significant attention as a solution to solve various problems that vehicles have, or for the installation of new systems in the vehicles. In ITS-VLC, the acquisition of the VLC transmitter via light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the onboard cameraâs captured image is the first and essential step when receiving the VLC signal. Most of the previous research on the acquisition of the LEDs assumes that the vehicles approach the LEDs source from the front of the vehicle. However, there are many situations in which vehicles cross the LEDs. In this study, we considered a case in which the vehicleâs receiver crosses the LED transmitter. We modified the acquisition algorithm based on the spatial-temporal gradient utilized in our model in which the transmitter and the receiver cross each other. We found that we can acquire the transmitter by correcting the difference of the transmitterâs position in the captured image. When validating the specific signal, we achieved 100% acquisition success rate.
T. Yamazato
Wireless World Research Forum Meeting 46, Paris, France
2021幎12æ
Optical wireless communication has been around since the 1980s. Why has its time come now in 5G/6G? What is the change?
T. Ohtaguro, M. Saito, T. Yamazato
International Conference on Materials and Systems for Sustainability (ICMaSS), online
This study describes intelligent transport image sensor communication (ITS-ISC) systems that use LED arrays as transmitters that imitate traffic lights. Three signal-transmission schemes -luminance modulation, spatial modulation, and combined luminance and spatial modulation- use LED array. However, their suitability for ITS-ISC has not been explored yet. Therefore, we compare the communication performance of these three systems under strong saturation and present the results.
R. Huang, T. Yamazato, M. Kinoshita, H. Okada, K. Kamakura, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Nagoya, Japan
Visible light communication based intelligent transportation systems (ITS-VLC) show great potential for future urban mobility. This study presents a performance evaluation of range estimation between vehicles and infrastructures in an ITS-VLC system. In the proposed ITS-VLC system, it is easy to simultaneously conduct communication and ranging using stereo cameras. However, the stereo camera calibration becomes a problem during simultaneous communication and ranging due to vehicle vibration. Using the data from LED transmitters and stereo cameras, it can obtain multiple measurements of distance. The monocular-stereo fusion algorithm is applied to visible light ranging in the proposed scheme using particle swarm optimization. We employed real data from the field trial experiment and achieved a ranging accuracy of 60±1.0 m.
M. Hattori, A. Tsujii, T. Kasashima, H. Hatano, T.Yamazato
In this study, we propose a method for reducing angle error in position estimation of a moving target. The distance between the transmitting array and target is approximated by two receiving sensors close to the transmitting array. This enables more accurate distance measurement between the receiving sensor and the target.
This study focuses on visible light communication (VLC) using a photodiode as a receiver. Accurate data transmission by this type of VLC is a challenge because the photodiode cannot detect weak light of subthreshold intensity owing to its insufficient light sensitivity. To overcome this problem, we employ a stochastic resonance, which is a nonlinear phenomenon in which the response characteristics of a system improve as its noise intensity increases, for the receiver of this VLC system. We also employ additive light-emitting diode light, which interferes in the photodiode as intentional noise. As an experimental result, the stochastic resonance was achieved by setting the parameters of the noise source appropriately, and we recovered the weak transmitting signal at the receiver.
We discuss herein whether an optical wireless communication (OWC) system can be a candidate for post 5G or 6G cellular communication. Almost once per decade, cellular mobile communication is transformed by a significant evolution, with each generation developing a distinctive concept or technology. Interestingly, similar trends have occurred in OWC systems based on visible light and light fidelity (Li-Fi). Unfortunately, OWC is currently relegated to a limited role in any 5G scenario, but the debate whether this is unavoidable has yet to be settled. Whether OWC is adopted post 5G or 6G is not the vital issue; rather, the aim should be that OWC coexists with 5G and 6G communication technologies. In working toward this goal, research and development in OWC will continue to extend its benefits and standardize its systems so that it can be widely deployed in the market. For example, given that a standard already exists for a visible-light beacon identifier and Li-Fi, a service using this standard should be developed to satisfy user demand. Toward this end, we propose herein a method for visible-light beacon identification that involves using a rolling shutter to receive visible-light communications with a smartphone camera. In addition, we introduce a rotary LED transmitter for image-sensor communication.
2020
R. Okema, D. Goto, T. Yamazato, F. Yamashita, H. Shibayama
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems using multiple low-Earth orbital (LEO) satellites achieve higher capacity than conventional LEO systems. However, in previous research, control signals are allocated to a different frequency band for each satellite signal in order to estimate its Doppler frequency. The increase in the number of satellites reduces unoccupied MIMO signal bandwidth and hence the overall capacity. This study aimed to prevent such capacity reduction by introducing the superimposition of control signals. Such control signals occupy a frequency bandwidth of the equivalent of only one control signal; therefore, they can prevent the reduction of the overall capacity. The main challenge is estimating the satellites' Doppler frequencies from the waveforms of Doppler-affected superimposed control signals. To overcome this challenge, we propose the adoption of a deep learning technique.
R. Huang, M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, K. Kamakura, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC), Taipei, Taiwan
Stereo cameras, serving as the âeyesâ of automotive vehicles, can determine the distance between objects and the vehicles. In this paper, stereo cameras are introduced into image-sensor-based visible light communication (IS-VLC) systems, in which the combination of VLC and stereo ranging shows promising prospects for intelligent transport systems. However, one of the problems of IS-VLC stereo ranging is that the luminance level of LEDs in the captured images would greatly affect disparity estimation, which would result in inaccurate range estimation. This paper gives the performance evaluation of this problem using phase-only correlation algorithm with luminance election. The proposed scheme using stereo cameras exhibited a ranging accuracy of 60±0.15 m in static conditions.
T. Yamamoto, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, M. Kinoshita, K. Kamakura, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications (ICETC), B4-1, online
Image sensor communication uses an LED light as a transmitter and an image sensor as a receiver. LED light sources are widely used in traffic lights and car tail lights. In addition, since image sensors are used for driving assistance and drive recorder applications, image sensor communication can be used in parallel with other intelligent transport systems(ITS) applications. This study describes an ITS image sensor communication (ITS-ISC) system, which uses an LED array as a transmitter to imitate traffic lights. There are three schemes of signal transmission using an LED array: luminance modulation, spatial modulation, and both luminance and spatial modulation. However, which of these schemes is the most suitable for ITS-ISC is not yet considered. In this study, we compare the communication performance of these three modulation schemes, present-ing the configuration of an LED array capture simulator and performance comparison results.
M.Hattori, A. Tsujii, T. Kasashima, H. Hatano, T. Yamazato
International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications (ICETC), I2-4, Online
In this study, a method for reducing the angle error in the position estimation of a target is proposed. In this method, the distance between the transmitting array and the target approximates two receiving sensors close to the transmitting array. This enables the attainment of a more accurate distance between the receiving sensor and the target.
S. Horiuchi, H. Hatano, K. Sanada, K. Mori, T. Yamazato, A. Shintaro, M. Saito, Y. Tadokoro, H. Tanaka
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), pp.101-104, online
2020幎11æ
M. Saito, T. Ohtaguro, Y. Nakashima, T. Yamazato, S. Arai, H. Hatano, H. Tanaka, Y. Tadokoro
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), pp.105-108, online
2020幎11æ
S. Arai, T. Yamazato, H. Hatano, M. Saito, H. Tanaka, Y. Tadokoro
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), pp.97-100, online
International Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Technology and Application 2020, Nanjing, China
2020幎10æ
Almost once per decade, cellular mobile communication is transformed by a significant evolution, with each generation developing a distinctive concept or technology. Interestingly, similar trends have occurred in visible light communication systems and vehicle automation. In this talk, the presenter looks back to the brief history of vehicle automation and related communication technologies. He then introduces visible light communication and its application for automotive intelligence. Some of his research results on VLC for automotive applications will also be provided.
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom), The 2020 OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, 2020., Online
2020幎7æ
Since the LED (light-emitting diode) is a semiconductor device, high-speed modulation is possible. The communication for transmitting information by blinking (modulating) the LED at such a high speed that the human eye cannot recognize is called visible light communication (VLC) [1]. The visible light beacon is an exciting application of VLC that transmits the short ID. In this article, the trend of the visible light beacon, a part of VLC is described.
Y.H.J Lai, A. Tsujii, T. Kasashima, T. Yamazato, H. Hatano
IEICE General Conference, A-4-2, p.35, Hiroshima, Japan
2020幎3æ
Ultrasonic sensors are an attractive option for target detection purposes due to their low cost, functionality in all light and weather conditions and easy implementation. Multiple ultrasonic sensors arranged in an array were shown to strengthen ultrasonic waves and increase detection range at static conditions in an indoor environment. In this article, we report a conducted experiment on a moving target in an outdoor environment to analyze its performance and will aim to use the obtained data for localization in future works.
R. Huang, M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, K. Kamakura, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
IEICE General Conference, A-9-21, p.100, Hiroshima, Japan
2020幎3æ
T. Yamazato
The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition (OFC2020), San Diego, USA
This paper presents an image sensor communication (ISC) using a digital micromirror device (DMD) projector as a transmitter. In particular, we focus on ISC for intelligent transport systems (ITSs) because DMD projectors are expected to be used in road traffic, such as vehicle headlights, street lights, and traffic signs. The DMD projector controls light patterns by switching tilt of micromirrors at high speed. Compared to the conventional LED array transmitter, DMD projector can design and alter the shape of the light pattern and data rate of transmission more easily. In the proposed system, the data rate can be easily increased by increasing the number of multiplexes. However, as the number of multiplexes is increased, the number of received pixels on the image sensor is decreased, and thus the performance of symbol detection deteriorates. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between the num- ber of received pixels per cell and communication performance for transmission pattern design. Hence, we experimentally clarify this relation using our prototype system via a DMD projector and a high-speed camera.
2019
T. Arisue, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, M. Kinoshita, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K. Kamakura, T. Fujii
Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication for Smart City (OWC2), pp.1-4, Toyota, Japan
2019幎12æ
This paper presents an image sensor communication (ISC) using a digital micromirror device (DMD) projector as a transmitter. In particular, we focus on ISC for intelligent transport systems (ITSs). DMD projectors are expected to use in road traffic, such as vehicle headlights, street lights, and projectors of traffic signs. Our proposed system projects data patterns on a road or signage for transmission in addition to primary lighting/display function. In this paper, we report a basic experiment of the proposed system using the DMD projector as a vehicle headlight in driving conditions.
K. Yamamura, K. Kamakura, M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato
Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication for Smart City (OWC2), pp.33-36, Toyota, Japan
2019幎12æ
R. Huang, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, M. Kinoshita, K. Kamakura, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication for Smart City (OWC2), pp.49-52, Toyota, Japan
2019幎12æ
The recognition of traffic light is important in self-driving cars nowadays. In this paper, we proposed a ranging method for traffic light on the road based on stereo ranging. By introducing the idea of visible light communication, it is simple to extract the traffic light from a complicated background. Experimental result shows that it can work well for the real traffic light.
T. Yamamoto, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, M. Kinoshita, K. Kamakura, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii
Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication for Smart City (OWC2), pp.53-56, Toyota, Japan
2019幎12æ
In this research, we describe visible light communication (VLC) using an LED array as a transmitter and a high-speed image sensor as a receiver. Such VLC is called an image sensor communication (ISC), and it assigns a symbol to the multilevel brightness of the LED. An issue is a nonlinearity caused by both LED and image sensors. In order to increase the data rate, it is necessary to handle this nonlinearity. In this paper, we first show the nonlinearity by experimental results. We then show that we can ease such nonlinearity by an introduction of an inverse pattern used to track the LED array. We show by the experimental result that the inverse pattern can mitigate the nonlinearity and thus improve the data rate.
K. Takahashi, K. Kamakura, M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato
Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication for Smart City (OWC2), pp.9-12, Toyota, Japan
R. Huang, M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, T. Fujii, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K. Kamakura
International Conference on Materials and Systems for Sustainability (ICMaSS), Nagoya, Japan
2019幎11æ
Camera calibration is an essential part of stereo camera system. By using stereo cameras, it enables simultaneous range estimation and visible light communication (VLC) data transmission, and we can use them for VLC-based intelligent transport system (ITS-VLC).
The ranging accuracy greatly relies on the accurate camera calibration. As the range increases, the estimation error of calibration parameters will make the ranging result worse. In this paper, we introduce stereo cameras into ITS-VLC system, and discuss the calibration method for range estimation. Considering the effect of camera calibration, the proposed scheme using stereo cameras confirms a great ranging accuracy in a static condition, and the estimation errors of calibration parameters are given within 0.05%.
T. Mitani, T. Yamazato, K. Naito, Y. Mori
The 8th IEEE International Conference on Conected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE), Gratz, Austlia
Emergency services around the world face the problem of increasing patient transportation times. The operation of emergency vehicles is fundamentally different from that of general vehicles ; hence, algorithms recommending optimal routes in a conventional way are not always applicable to emergency vehicles. In this study, we analyzed data of inter-vehicle and road-vehicle communication collected at 700 MHz band intelligent transport systems and demonstrated that the overall travel time of emergency vehicles can be reduced by decreasing their travel time at intersections.
We will introduce an integrated system of visible light communication (VLC) and ranging using high-speed stereo imaging. The system simultaneously decodes a VLC signal while its source tracking portion outputs ranging information. These image sensors are mainly used to provide visual information to the driver.
This study presents a novel method for signal demodulation for use with visible light communication systems composed of an image sensor as a receiver and light-emitting diode (LED) transmitters. Demodulation is a central challenge in the design of such a system, as the image captured at the image-sensor receiver is deteriorated by distance and noise. We propose a demodulation method that offers performance approaching that of the maximum-likelihood decoding (MLD) method and with significantly less complexity. The proposed method first applies the minimum mean square error (MMSE) method to each LED into reliable LEDs and unreliable LEDs according to the MMSE results and it demodulates the LEDs judged as reliable directly. Then, the MLD method is applied only to the unreliable LEDs to demodulate their signals. The results of numerical simulations and lab experiments are presented to evaluate the performance of this modified demodulation method.
This paper focuses on an image sensor communication system that uses an LED as the transmitter and a high-speed image sensor (camera) as the receiver. Communication in this scheme depends on the quality of images transmitted from the LED to the sensor. If the image becomes unfocused on the way to the receiver, the LED luminance that make up the signal cannot be detected, so the receiver cannot demodulate the signal data. To overcome this problem, this study proposes a novel demodulation scheme to recover data from a degraded image, based on a maximum likelihood decoding (MLD) algorithm. The proposed method creates template images that imitate all possible blinking patterns produced by the LED transmitter, and then calculates the Euclidean distances between pixels in the captured image and the pseudo images for all possible blinking patterns. Finally, the algorithm chooses the image template with the smallest Euclidian distance from the received signal as the recovered data. Though an exhaustive set of image templates must be prepared for the proposed MLD, the number of templates depends on the number of LEDs on the transmitter. Thus, the computational complexity of this method increases as the number of transmitter LEDs increases. To reduce the computational complexity of the proposed MLD algorithm, the binary differential evolution (BDE) algorithm is used, which is a swarm intelligence technique. Computer simulations are used to evaluate the BDE algorithm's usefulness for reducing computational complexity and improving the BER of the communication system.
M. Hori, M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, T. Fujii, K. Kamakura, T. Yendo, S. Arai
3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Visible Light Communications (ICELVC), Seoul, Korea
2019幎3æ
Image sensor communication (ISC) is a type of visible light communications (VLC) that has high affinity with the field of intelligent transport systems (ITSs). In an ISC, accurate detection of the transmitter from a captured image is critical, because the receiver uses pixels that sense VLC signal for data reception. The purpose of this study is to reduce the false-positive and the false-negative probabilities of the transmitter. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel LED transmitter detection method composed of two stages: the candidate extraction stage by a linear support vector machine (SVM) and the classification stage by a convolutional neural network (CNN). Then, we show that the proposed method is robust to vehicle vibration and other noises such as non-transmitter LED compared to the conventional method.
Stochastic resonance (SR) is a noise-enhancement phenomenon that enables the detection of sub-threshold signals by adding noise and using nonlinear systems. This paper explores the applicability of SR in a BPSK receiver with sub-threshold signals. Although received signals are amplified as a result of the nonlinear behavior of the receiver, they are somewhat distorted. This results in the lower performance of SR receivers in comparison with linear receivers. Employing a parallel network of SR systems is expected to solve this problem. The present theoretical analysis demonstrates that in a certain noise intensity range, the output of the network can fully describe an input sub-threshold signal, and hence, the performance close to that of the linear receivers can be obtained. The effectiveness of the SR receiver was also demonstrated through a numerical example of the bit error rate (BER). However, achieving good BER performance requires an infinite number of arrayed SR systems, which is not realistic in practical systems. A design framework for an SR network with a finite number of elements and an appropriate noise intensity that can realize BER performance close to that in linear systems is also provided.
This paper proposes a new demodulation method using a one-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC). With one bit resolution, a signal having a multilevel signal, such as a quadrature amplitude modulated (QAM) signal, is largely degraded by nonlinearity. To demodulate the signals, a high-resolution ADC is used to receive the signals with high linearity. This study sets out to demodulate the QAM signals using a one-bit ADC, whose resolution is the lowest (one-bit) and possesses outputs of binary (nonlinear) values. We propose to solve the issue by focusing on the statistical characteristics of the output signals of the one-bit ADC combined with noise. The proposed demodulation method is based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) criterion. The theoretical analysis presented illustrates that reliable demodulation is possible even with the one-bit ADC, provided the output probability of the ADC corresponds to each transmitted symbol is known.
S. Kamegawa, M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, T. Fujii, K. Kamakura, T. Yendo, S. Arai
IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can add visible light communication (VLC) by high-speed blinking to their original lighting function. VLC using image sensors as receivers is referred to as image sensor communication (ISC). ISC eliminates noise and interference and enables multiple and simultaneous communication; hence it is suitable for outdoor mobile environments such as intelligent transport systems (ITSs). On the other hand, since the communication rate depends on the frame rate, it is difficult to increase. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to increase the communication rate by multilevel pulse width modulation (PWM). When the modulation level is increased, demodulation becomes difficult due to the bit per pixel (bpp) limitation of the image sensor. First, in order to perform efficient luminance extraction in limited bpp, we compare the maximum luminance extraction and the average luminance extraction. Then, we propose improving the nonlinearity between the transmitter and receiver, which is a problem in average luminance extraction suitable for a mobile environment, by applying precoded PWM. Finally, we evaluate effectiveness of precoded PWM experimentally.
This paper proposes a demodulation method using a one-bit comparator for signals processed by multilevel pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). The proposed method is simple and provides an alternative to using an analog-to-digital converter to describe multilevel input signals. Because of the noise present in the transmitted multilevel PAM signal, the two-level output of the one-bit comparator shows different statistical behavior for each level of the signal. Thus, it is possible to detect the signal level, or perform symbol decision, based on the maximum likelihood (ML) criterion. The present theoretical analysis reveals that reliable demodulation is possible even with a one-bit comparator if the probability mass function of the two-level outputs of each received symbol plus intentionally added noise is known.
The present letter discusses a detectability enhancement induced by co-channel interference signals in the polarization diversity reception. The challenge is the detection of weak (subthreshold) signals, the level of which is less than the detection limit of radio receivers. To understand the theory underlying the mechanism in the presented diversity scheme, we introduce an analytic model of a dual polarized antenna array in the fading channel. In addition, the channel capacity in a binary data transmission is derived. As a result, we reveal that the interference-aided diversity reception enables us to detect signals even below the detection limit of the receiver. Moreover, the appropriate source code is needed to achieve the channel capacity because the transmission channel is asymmetric in the present reception scheme.
S. Hiraoka, Y. Nakashima, T. Yamazato, S. Arai, Y. Tadokoro, H. Tanaka
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), pp. 705-708, Tarragona, Spain
2018幎9æ
We present a numerical study of an interference-aided detection of a weak (subthreshold) signal in a polarization diversity. We show that the nonlinear signal processing dramatically improves the detectability of the weak signal, supported by an interference signal generated by an appropriate beam control of the antenna arrays. The method takes advantage of subthreshold signal detection by the Stochastic resonance. To postulate a performance of the interference-aided detection, we numerically evaluate the channel capacity provided by the proposed diversity reception on a fading model. Through the numerical analysis, we find that the channel capacity depends on the threshold level of the detector and also the beam pattern determined by the diversity weights in the antenna arrays.
Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Toyama International Conference Center, Toyama, Japan
2018幎8æ
This article introduces image sensor communications (ISC), a subset of visible light communication (VLC), that use high-speed image sensor and its application to automotive. Li-Fi (light fidelity) and OCC (optical camera communication) or also know as CamCom are also VLC family. Li-Fi is a high-speed wireless system and is currently in the process of being standardized in IEEE 802.11. The OCC uses an ordinary camera, e.g. a smartphone camera, as a receiver while ISC uses a high-speed image sensor as a reception device. The principal component of a camera, an image sensor, is used for both ISC and OCC. The main difference is that ISC focuses on a high-speed image sensor while OCC concentrates on low-cost consumer applications using smartphones and similar contemporary devices. For automotive usage, a high-speed image sensor is the best choice for the VLC receiver because the image sensor has a spatial separation of noise and target source. The VLC family uses LED as the transmitter and LED light sources are everywhere on streets: in signs, traffic lights, street lights, and other stationary objects. So if we can send IDs or exact location data (latitude and longitude) by way of VLC from those LEDs, then they can be used as anchor nodes placed on roads, sidewalks, or landmarks. Those anchor nodes help autonomous cars and connected vehicle for robust navigation with centimeter accuracy. The image sensor is the suitable detection device as it can be used for both positioning and VLC data detection. The author has been working on ISC for automotive applications. In this article, some of the author research, as well as his findings, are introduced.
This article overviews image sensor communication (ISC), a subset of visible light communication (VLC) system that uses a high-speed image sensor as a reception device. Owing to a massive number of pixels and spatial separation of multiple light souces, ISC can be used in an outdoor mobile environment, suitable for automotive applications. The paper also introduces some results from the authorsâ work on ISC and its application to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication.
T. Yamazato
Visible Light Communications Workshop, Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-PR), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2018幎7æ
Back in 1998, Prof. Masao Nakagawa invented the concept of visible light communications (VLC) that adopts light emitting diodes (LEDs) as a transmitter. Twenty years of research progress make VLC attractive not only to researchers but also to practitioners. We are about to see blooms of VLC products. Image-sensor communication (ISC) is a form of VLC that uses image-sensor as a reception device. A particular advantage of ISC is an ability to spatially separate light sources. We can use ISC in the outdoor mobile environment. In this presentation, I will review ISC, its application, and future perspective. Some results from the author vis-a-vis ISC and its application to the automobile are also introduced.
M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, T. Fujii, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K. Kamakura
International Conference and Exhibition on Visible Light Communications (ICEVLC), Yokohama, Japan
2018幎3æ
In this paper, we propose using a high-speed stereo camera as the image sensor communication (ISC) receiver of an intelligent transport system (ITS). The stereo camera is used for front recognition of the vehicle, making it possible to estimate distances and enabling an integrative system that comprises vehicle front recognition and communication. Furthermore, several stereo images from slightly different views can be obtained at the same time, which provides diversity. Thus the proposed method enhances communication performance owing to the stereo diversity. We also provide experimental results obtained using the high-speed stereo camera and compare them with that of a conventional single high-speed camera. The proposed method improves the bit error rate (BER) performance with respect to the conventional method.
Takaya Yamazato
International Conference on Optical Wireless Communications, Beijing, China
This tutorial article presents an outline of image sensor communication (ISC) technologies realized by light sources and cameras. It discusses the revision of the IEEE 802.15.7-2011 standard, namely, the IEEE 802.15.7m Optical Wireless Communications Task Group, which has significantly influenced the development of the ISC technology. It also reviews the ISC technical proposals of the task group and compares them with related works. The essential technical considerations of the ISC specifications are presented, and the future directions of research and development are discussed.
M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, T. Fujii, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K. Kamakura
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol.E101-A, no.1, pp.176-184
Image sensor communication (ISC), derived from visible light communication (VLC) is an attractive solution for outdoor mobile environments, particularly for intelligent transport systems (ITS). In ITS-ISC, tracking a transmitter in the image plane is critical issue since vehicle vibrations make it difficult to select the correct pixels for data reception. Our goal in this study is to develop a precise tracking method. To accomplish this, vehicle vibration modeling and its parameters estimation, i.e., representative frequencies and their amplitudes for inherent vehicle vibration, and the variance of the Gaussian random process representing road surface irregularity, are required. In this paper, we measured actual vehicle vibration in a driving situation and determined parameters based on the frequency characteristics. Then, we demonstrate that vehicle vibration that induces transmitter displacement in an image plane can be modeled by only Gaussian random processes that represent road surface irregularity when a high frame rate (e.g., 1000 fps) image sensor is used as an ISC receiver. The simplified vehicle vibration model and its parameters are evaluated by numerical analysis and experimental measurement and obtained result shows that the proposed model can reproduce the characteristics of the transmitter displacement sufficiently.
The concept of visible light communications (VLC) originates from an Asian professor and adopts light emitting diodes (LEDs) as a transmitter. Three Asian born Nobel Prize winners developed blue LEDs, key devices that produce white lighting. Consequently, VLC and its other forms can be considered as an Asian born wireless technology. This paper overviews VLC with emphasis on image sensor communication (ISC) that uses an image sensor as a reception device for VLC signals. Some results from the author vis-a-vis ISC and its application to automobile are also introduced.
S. Kibe, K. Kamakura, T. Yamazato
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-6, Singapore, Singapore
This paper proposes an N-stream superimposed system for image-sensor-based visible light communications (ISbased VLC). Based on the principle of m-point discrete Fourier transform (DFT), a phase shift keying (PSK) signal is transmitted over m consecutive time slots mT, where T is a slot duration. In practice, the symbol rate of this paper is R/(m + 1) because a guard slot is inserted every m slots. In the superimposed system, N data streams where the symbol rate of the nth data stream, n = {1, 2, . . . , N}, is 1/(m + 1)n-1 times the symbol rate of the first data stream are combined to form a pulse-width modulated (PWM) wave with a period time T. An IS receiver with a camera operating at a frame rate of R/(m + 1)n-1 fps demodulates data streams whose symbol rate is R/m + 1)n symbol/s or lower. Our experimental results validate that from a superimposed PWM wave of 500-symbol/s and 125-symbol/s data streams, a 2000-fps camera receiver demodulates both of the two data streams and the 500-fps camera receiver does the 125-symbol/s data stream successfully, without shortening individual error-free transmission ranges, compared with non-superimposed systems in which 500-symbol/s and 125-symbol/s data streams are independently transmitted by different light emitting diode (LED) transmitters and received by 2000-fps and 500-fps camera receivers, respectively.
Y. Nakashima, T. Yamazato, Y. Tadokoro, S. Arai
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), pp.291-294, Cancun, Mexico
2017幎12æ
Stochastic Resonance (SR) is considered as a noise enhanced phenomenon, that a response of a nonlinear system is improved by noise. In previous studies, an application of SR for wireless communication has been discussed and an SR receiver, the receiver that demodulate a received signal by SR, was proposed. However, these studies have used a basic modulation signal and have not focused on a signal that transmit information by multi-level amplitude. In this paper, we consider an SR receiver for 4-pulse amplitude modulation (4-PAM) signals. By applying SR, it can demodulate 4-PAM signals by a 1-bit resolution device. We show the system model of the receiver, evaluate its performance by simulation, and show its availability.
Takaya Yamazato
Journal of Communications and Information Networks, vol.2, no.4, pp.65-74
This paper introduces infrastructure-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communications using VLC. A VLC coupled with a high-speed image sensor is introduced (i.e., image sensor communication). The high-speed image sensors provide eyes for autonomous and connected vehicles. VLC imparts data reception capability to image sensors with necessary functions, which can then be provided to autonomous and connected vehicles. In this paper, some of our research on coupling VLC to high-speed image sensors is introduced, including our key findings: the basics of ISC, a vehicle motion model, and range estimation.
This paper presents a feasibility study of the uplink visible light communication (VLC) beacon system for the universal traffic management system (UTMS). The UTMS is a traffic management system beneath the National Police Agency of Japan. Currently, 55 000 UTMS infrared beacon systems have been installed, and they provide expressway and ordinary road information to cars. However, the data rate is 1 Mbps, and a faster data rate is necessary to support automotive and smart mobility devices. In this paper, we propose an uplink V2I system for the UTMS. The system is designed to match the current beacon system as closely as possible, so that the system can easily be replaced and still provide sufficient bandwidth for future automotive and smart mobility devices. We adopt a photo diode (PD) as the VLC receiver and a commercially available off-the-shelf LED headlight as a transmitter. Unfortunately, the bandwidth of such an LED is usually small, so we consider applying a bit-loading algorithm to direct-current-biased optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. To reduce strong background noise, such as from the sun, we narrow down the field-of-view by applying a lens to the PD, which forms a tiny communication area, smaller than the current infrared beacon system. We then consider multiple PDs with the lens to create a similar communication area as the infrared beacon system. As a result, we achieve 3.1-Mbps throughput.
K. Kamakura, T. Yamazato
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp.235-236, Orlando, FL, USA
Most practical visible light communication (VLC) systems being currently deployed with image sensor receivers use intensity modulation and direct detection scheme for outdoor and indoor applications. A number of modulation and coding techniques that are used for image sensor-based VLC systems are presented.
Signal filtering is necessary for wireless communication. However it causes the signal amplitude to fluctuate and affects the performance of stochastic resonance (SR) receivers. In this study, we evaluate the bit error rate (BER) performance of filtered binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) on an SR receiver. The results show that filtering improves the BER performance of the SR receiver because the amplitude fluctuation contributes to improving the SR effect. We also evaluate the effect of the roll-off factor, which determines the bandwidth of the filter and the amplitude fluctuation. The results demonstrate the applicability of the SR receiver to bandlimited BPSK signals.
Image sensor communication (ISC), which is derived from visible light communication (VLC), is a novel form of wireless communication that uses an image sensor as a receiver. ISC is an attractive solution for outdoor mobile environments and is particularly wellsuited to intelligent transport systems (ITS). The purpose of this paper is to derive the dominant components of vehicle vibrations and road surface irregularities that induce transmitter displacement in ITS-ICS in paved road scenarios. Such displacements make it difficult for a ISC receiver to select the correct pixels. We measured vehicle vibrations during an actual driving scenario using a sixaxis acceleration sensor installed in a smartphone. Using the results obtained, we performed a frequency analysis of the vehicle vibrations and determined the parameters of vehicle vibrations based on the frequency characteristics. This paper explains that the vehicle vibrations that affect the communication performance can be modeled by solely using Gaussian random processes when a high frame rate (e.g. 1000 fps) image sensor is used as the ISC receiver.
T. Yamazato
Presentation at Professor Jean Armstrong's Laboratory, Monash University, Monash University, Australia.
2017幎3æ
N. Kawagita, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, T. Fujii, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K.Kamakura
RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.129-132, Guam
2017幎3æ
In this paper, we focus on the vehicle to infrastructure visible light communication (V2I-VLC) for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). We propose a V2I-VLC system using LED headlights as transmitters and photodiodes (PDs) with an optical lens as receivers. We adopt DC biased optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) as a modulation scheme in order to realize high speed communication. As a results of the data transmission experiments in the driving situation, we achieve data rate of 2.7 Mbps using 32QAM.
W. Kihara, T. Yendo, S. Arai, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, K. Kamakura
RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.133-136, Guan, USA
2017幎3æ
R. Ohno, T. Yamazato
RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.81-84, Guam, USA
2017幎3æ
In this paper, we propose a traffic flow management at an intersection using the 760 MHz band V2X (Vehicle-to-X) system based on ARIB STD-T109. Using the V2X system, a road side unit (RSU) can obtain the vehicular information such as the vehicle position, speed and route. Based on the vehicular information, a ``support phase'' can be inserted to a cycle of traffic signal that controls traffic flow at an intersection. We define the âsupport phaseâ as the phase of changing the stop/go sign of the traffic signal on an intersection as necessary. In this way, it is expected to shorten the travel time of the vehicles. We evaluate the algorithm by a traffic simulator in terms of mean speed of all vehicles while passing through the intersection with considering V2X penetration rate.
This is the fourth article in the series of eight, started in November 2016 and published monthly in the IEEE ComSoc Global Communi- cations Newsletter, which covers all areas of IEEE ComSoc Member and Global Activities. In this series of articles, I am introducing the six MGA Directors (Sister and Related Societies; Membership Services; AP, NA, LA, EMEA Regions) and the two Chairs of the Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) and Young Professionals (YP) Standing Committees. In each article, one by one they present their sector activities and plans. In this issue, I interview Takaya Yamazato, Director of the Asia/ Paci c Region (AP). Takaya is a professor at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan. He received the Ph.D. degree from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1993. From 1993 to 1998 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Information Electronics, Nagoya University, Japan. From 1997 to 1998 he was a visiting researcher in the Research Group for RF Communications, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 2006 he received the IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award. He served as symposium co-chair of ICC 2009 and ICC 2011. From 2008 to 2010 he was the chair of the IEEE ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee and the editor-in-chief of the Japanese Section of IEICE Transactions on Communications. His research interests include visible light communication, intelligent transport systems, stochastic resonance, and open educational resources. It is a pleasure for me to interview Takaya for this issue and o er him this opportunity to outline his current activities and plans as Director of the AP Region.
We focus on the road-to-vehicle visible light communication (VLC) that system is composed of a LED matrix as a transmitter and a high-speed camera as a receiver. In this VLC system, intensity of each LED cannot be determined from received image directly in case that the receiver is distant from the transmitter. In previous research, a method to estimate intensity of the LED from received image is proposed. In this method, intensity of LED is estimated by using Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse matrix of coefficient matrix, which expresses relation between intensity of LEDs and pixel values. However, the coefficient matrix changes every moment because it is determined by positional relation between the receiver and the LED traffic light in VLC system. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate position of the LED matrix using simulated images. We measure sensitivity distribution of image sensor to generate simulated images. We evaluated degree of similarity between simulated images and real images.
M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, T. Fujii, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K. Kamakura
Cambodia-Japan Joint Workshop on Ambient Intelligence and Sensor Networks, ã·ã¥ã ãªã¢ãã
2016幎12æ
Image sensor communication (ISC) enables multiple and simultaneous signal reception because of itsãability spatially separate multiple sources. Therefore, ISC is an attractive solution for an outdoor mobile environment, in particular, in the field of intelligent transport systems (ITS). In ISC, since a transmitter position moves in an image plane according to vehicle movement, detection and tracking of transmitter is critical issue for robust data reception. Such movement referred to as optical ow causes ISC channel to fluctuate and must be considered to receive the signal accurately. In this paper, we conducted vehicle vibration measurement in well paved road and analyzed the frequency characteristic. According to the measured result, we proposed a vehicle vibration model and determined its parameters.
Y. Nakashima, H. Tanaka, T. Yamazato, Y. Tadokoro and S. Arai
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), pp.407-410, Yugawara,Japan
2016幎11æ
Signal filtering is necessary for wireless communication however it fluctuates the signal amplitude and affects the performance of a stochastic resonance (SR) receiver. In this paper, we evaluate the bit error rate (BER) performance of filtered binary phase shift keying (BPSK) on an SR receiver. The result shows that filtering improves the BER performance of the SR receiver because the amplitude fluctuation contributes to improving the SR effect, indicating the applicability of the SR receiver to bandlimited BPSK signals.
M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, T. Fujii, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K. Kamakura
23rd World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems , Melbourne, Australia
2016幎10æ
In this paper, we focus on the visible light communication (VLC) for ITS application using LED light source as a transmitter and high-speed image sensor as a receiver (image sensor communication: ISC). In ISC, the data reception is performed by extracting luminance corresponding to the transmitter from captured images. However, since either transmitter, receiver, or both moves with vehicles, the transmitter position is moved between frames and it confuses receiver to select the correct pixels. Hence, we treat such movement referred to as optical flow as channel fluctuation. In our previous work, we proposed a model that expressed motion of transmitter in captured images by using a single pinhole camera. In this paper, we derive channel fluctuation characteristic by numerical analysis based on the proposed model and evaluate its validity by comparing with channel fluctuation characteristic obtained by actual measurement.
S. Sato, H. Okada, K. Kobayashi, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC), pp.1242-1247, Valencia, Spain
Digital signage, which is advertising media using a liquid crystal display (LCD), is increasing in popularity. One possible application is wireless communications between digital signage and viewers. We focus on image-sensor-based visible light communication (VLC). Image-sensor-based VLC requires only an image sensor (IS), which is common equipment in smart phones. In the proposed method, an nformation signal is displayed on LCD. However, embedding the information signal into an advertisement may decrease the quality. We propose blue color difference modulation to make such signals imperceptible. We implemented a VLC system between digital signage and IS to demonstrate, the effectiveness of the proposed modulation in a real environment.
K. Masuda, K. Kamakura, T. Yamazato
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC), pp.1254-1259, Valencia, Spain
This paper discusses the stochastic resonance (SR) effect in a binary communication system for subthreshold signal reception. We focus on the problem of no communication when received signal strength is below receiver sensitivity. Subthreshold signal reception requires a device that exhibits SR, such as a Schmitt trigger or a comparator. Previously, we proposed an alternative three-level device and demonstrated its high performance for subthreshold signal reception in an SR receiver. In the present study, we show that our proposed three-level device outperforms the three devices and discuss reasons for this superior performance. Contributions of our present paper are twofold: first, we analytically derive bit error rate (BER) performances of SR receivers installed with a Schmitt trigger and a comparator; second, we compare performances of the Schmitt trigger, comparator, and three-level device.
As a new technology for next-generation vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, visible-light communication (VLC) using light-emitting diode (LED) transmitters and camera receivers has been energetically studied. Toward the future in which vehicles are connected anytime and anywhere by optical signals, the cutting-edge camera receiver employing a special CMOS image sensor, i.e., the optical communication image sensor (OCI), has been prototyped, and an optical V2V communication system applying this OCI-based camera receiver has already demonstrated 10-Mb/s optical signal transmission between real vehicles during outside driving. In this paper, to reach a transmission performance of 54 Mb/s, which is standardized as the maximum data rate in IEEE 802.11p for V2X communication, a more advanced OCI-based automotive VLC system is described. By introducing optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (opticalOFDM), the new system achieves a more than fivefold higher data rate. Additionally, the frequency response characteristics and circuit noise of the OCI are closely analyzed and taken into account in the signal design. Furthermore, the forward-current limitation of an actual LED is also considered for long operational reliability, i.e., the LED is not operated in overdrive. Bit-error-rate experiments verify a system performance of 45 Mb/s without bit errors and 55 Mb/s with BER < 10-5.
High-speed image sensors, designed for machine vision and control, provide the eyes for autonomous and connected vehicle. A noteworthy feature of high-speed image sensors is their ability to be used as a reception device for visible light communication (VLC) signals. Due to the massive number of pixels available and the ability to spatially separate sources, a signal-receiving pixel in the image sensor plane represents the actual position of the transmitter. The VLC signal can be represented not only by a VLC time domain signal but also by the position of the transmitter. In this paper, we propose a robust range estimation scheme that integrates with a VLC function for infrastructure-to-vehicle visible light communication (I2V-VLC). The scheme is composed of an LED array transmitter and a high-speed image sensor receiver. It measures a range by taking phase-only correlation (POC) and avoids vehicle vibration from road irregularity. Field trials confirm an accuracy range of 0.3 m, even on rough road conditions, with the measurement time of 2 ms, which is much faster than that of light detection and ranging (LIDAR).
Complex interleaved orthogonal design (CIOD) can offers diversity gain to the part of the source in spatial modulation which has single radio frequency (RF) front-end at the transmitter despite multiple-inputmultiple-output, but emits the undesired component out-of-band. For the reducing out-of-band emission, we give up indicating the information source by the antenna switching and increase both the interleaver size and the antenna switching interval. The increase reduces the discontinuities in the waveform and out-of-band emission. We propose such a scheme as transmit diversity with single RF front-end using CIOD. The diversity gain of the proposed scheme is equivalent to the case for CIOD. Moreover, we evaluate the increase of out-of-band emission and confirm that of the proposed scheme compared to the ideal case is only 3dB.
This paper proposes a novel data detection scheme based on the occurrence of blurred output images in image-sensor-based visible light communication systems. This system's receiver suffers from an inability to detect correct LED luminance values and demodulation of data because the captured image blurs owing to defocusing. The proposed method assumes that the light emitted by all LEDs that is diffused by the blur can be approximated by applying a Gaussian filter and expressesall LED luminance values as convolution equations based on this diffusion of the LED light. We estimate each LED light's condition by simultaneously solving these convolution equations and recover data according to the estimated result. To confirm the accuracy of the proposed method, we conduct computer simulations and an implementation experiment to evaluate the bit error rate performance of the proposed method.
H. Tanaka, T. Yamazato, Y. Tadokoro, S. Arai
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), Hong Kong, China
2015幎12æ
Stochastic resonance (SR) is an interesting phenomenon in that noise enhances system responses. Despite an attractive phenomenon of SR that noise enhances a weak signal below a receiver sensitivity, few researchers have addressed the SR effect in communication systems. Previously, we proposed an analysis method for the SR receiver with a device exhibiting SR and evaluated its bit error rate (BER) performance. However, the device was limited to a non-dynamical device, and there is room for improving the performance of the SR receiver by changing the device. In this paper, we use two typical devices exhibiting SR, i.e., a comparator as a non-dynamical device and a Schmitt trigger as a dynamical device. We evaluate the BER performances of these devices with analysis methods and numerical simulations. A performance comparison of these devices is also shown.
C. Fuwa, H. Okada, K. Kobayashi, M. Katayama
International Symposium on EcoTopia Science (ISETS), no.P-6-2, Nagoya, Japan
2015幎11æ
IEEE 802.11ac, which is the latest standard of IEEE 802.11, supports forward-link (downlink) MU (Multi-User)-MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output), and it can improve the transmission efficiency. IEEE 802.11ax, which is under standardization, is considered to apply reverse-link (uplink) MU-MIMO, and a further improvement of the efficiency is expected. In this paper, we propose to introduce reverse-link MU-MIMO in addition to forward-link MU-MIMO for wireless mesh networks, and evaluate the performance in terms of area transmission efficiency, which indicates a number of packets in a unit area. Then, we clarify that the proposed system achieves the higher area transmission efficiency than forward-link MU-MIMO.
M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, T. Fujii, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K. Kamakura
International Workshop on Vision, Communications and Circuits (IWVCC) , Yokohama, Japan
2015幎11æ
Image-sensor-based visible light communications (IS-VLC), or also known as image sensor communication (ISC) and camera communications (CamCom), is one of emerging segment in the field of visible light communications (VLC). As the name indicates, IS-VLC uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or an LED array for the transmitter by modulating LEDâs intensity at high speeds that are undetectable to the human eye. For the reception device, IS-VLC adopts image-sensor. In our previous work, we have proposed vehicle motion model that expresses the motion of VLC transmitter in image plane by single pinhole camera model. In this paper, we performed a simulation based on vehicle motion model for infrastructure-to-vehicle VLC (I2V-VLC) with actual vehicle vibration measured by 6- axis acceleration sensor of smartphone and evaluated its channel characterized by optical flow.
H. Tanaka, T. Yamazato, S. Arai
International Workshop on Vision, Communications and Circuits (IWVCC) , Yokohama, Japan
2015幎11æ
This paper evaluates the performance of the stochastic resonance (SR) receiver for subthreshold signal reception. We focus on the problem of no communication when received signal strength is below receiver sensitivity. Previously, we proposed a SR receiver installed with a typical device exhibiting SR in BPSK modulation and presented the performance improvement for subthreshold signals. However, the performances of other nonlinear devices exhibiting SR are not clear, and we require the performance evaluation for various nonlinear devices. And also, the performance evaluation in multi-level modulation is not presented. In this paper, we evaluate bit error rate (BER) performances of SR receivers installed with a three-level device, a Schmitt trigger and a comparator in QPSK modulation.
S. Sato, H. Okada, K. Kobayashi, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
International Conference and Exhibition on Visible Light Communications (ICEVLC), Yokohama, Japan
2015幎10æ
Y. Kawai, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, T. Fujii, T. Yendo, S. Arai, K. Kamakura
International Conference and Exhibition on Visible Light Communications (ICEVLC), Yokohama, Japan
2015幎10æ
This paper focuses on image sensor based vehicle-to-infrastructure visible light communication (V2IVLC) for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs). Because the image sensor can spatially separate multiple or noise sources, its receiver can simultaneously demodulate multiple sources. Thus, we consider multiple source reception from multiple vehicles. In image sensor based VLC, the transmitted data are received by extracting the luminance corresponding to the VLC transmitter from the captured image. Transmitter detection and tracking are an important requirement of these systems but are degraded by occlusion, which causes non-line of sight (NLOS). We focus on tracking of transmitters that may be occluded by moving vehicles in V2I-VLC. Our proposed method detects multiple LED headlights by combining a background difference method with an LED detection method based on time and space gradients. We also propose a tracking method based on optical flow-based tracking, which handles occlusion by linear or second-curve interpolation. The proposed methods were evaluated by a high-speed camera placed by the roadside. The false-positive and falsenegative tracking rates were 6.25% and 3.32%, respectively, at κ = 60 (where κ defines the permissible error in the optical flow).
K. Chiga, H. Tanaka, T. Yamazato, Y. Tadokoro, S. Arai
Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, IEICE, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 520-533
Stochastic resonance (SR) is a nonlinear phenomenon that, under certain conditions, can enhance system response by adding noise to the signals of some nonlinear system. A particular advantage of SR over conventional linear systems is that it is able to detect subthreshold signals that linear systems hardly sense. Unfortunately, most research of SR in wireless communication systems has focused on fundamental analysis, leaving work to be done in experimental SR research despite the attractiveness of its application. Few attempts have so far addressed the development of SR receivers to show the feasibility of subthreshold signal detection. Those receivers that have been developed are simple ones specially made to confirm the usefulness of SR without needing to support state-of-the-art wireless radio technology. The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility of using an SR receiver to receive subthreshold radio frequency (RF) signals. A new add-on SR device is developed and confirmation that the SR phenomenon exists within RF is obtained when using software defined radio (SDR) as the post-processing receiver. Furthermore, bit error rate (BER) performance is mainly governed by the add-on SR device's output signal quality.
Channel modeling is critical for the design and performance evaluation of visible light communication (VLC). Although a considerable amount of research has focused on indoor VLC systems using singleelement photodiodes, there remains a need for channel modeling of VLC systems for outdoor mobile environments. In this paper, we describe and provide results for modeling image sensor based VLC for automotive applications. In particular, we examine the channel model for mobile movements in the image plane as well as channel decay according to the distance between the transmitter and the receiver. Optical flow measurements were conducted for three VLC situations for automotive use: infrastructure to vehicle VLC (I2V-VLC); vehicle to infrastructure VLC (V2I- VLC); and vehicle to vehicle VLC (V2V-VLC). We describe vehicle motion by optical flow with subpixel accuracy using phase-only correlation (POC) analysis and show that a single-pinhole camera model successfully describes these three VLC cases. In addition, the luminance of the central pixel from the projected LED area versus the distance between the LED and the camera was measured. Our key findings are twofold. First, a single-pinhole camera model can be applied to vehicle motion modeling of a I2V-VLC, V2I-VLC, and V2V-VLC. Second, the DC gain at a pixel remains constant as long as the projected image of the transmitter LED occupies several pixels. In other words, if we choose a pixel with highest luminance among the projected image of transmitter LED, the value remains constant, and the signal-to-noise ratio does not change according to the distance.
This paper demonstrates the feasibility of layered space-time coding (STC) in an outdoor image-sensor-based (ISbased) visible light communication (VLC) system. We examined that for low-resolution IS-based VLC channel where intensity-modulated signals from two different light emitting diodes (LEDs) are detected by one pixel of an IS, STC allows us to decouple them; thus, succeeding to receive them with no errors. Consequently, STC offers extended transmission distance to pixel-resolution-limited IS-based VLC links. In the layered STC presented in this paper, additional bit streams are laid on the 2n à 2n LED array for increasing the transmission rate per symbol duration for the case where the pixel resolution is improved. A prototype of a threelayered STC is built with an 8 à 8 LED array, where each of the LEDs is modulated at 1 kb/s and a high-speed camera with IS operating at 1000 fps. Our experimental results validate that the two additional bit streams (layer-2 and -3), aligned in the layer-1 STC matrix pair, are extracted with no errors when the receiver comes within 155 and 55 m, respectively, from the LED array, without decreasing 210 m of the transmission distance of layer-1 bit stream.
This paper demonstrates the feasibility of layered space-time coding (STC) in an outdoor image-sensor-based (IS-based) visible light communication (VLC) system. We examined that for low-resolution IS-based VLC channel where intensity modulated signals from two different light emitting diodes (LEDs) are detected at one pixel on the image plane, STC allows to decouple them, thus receiving data with no errors. Consequently, STC offers extending the transmission distance. In the layered STC presented here, additional bit streams are aligned in the 2nÃ2n LED array for increasing the transmission rate per symbol duration for the case where the spatial resolution is improved. A prototype of three layered STC is built with an 8Ã8LED array, where each of the LEDs is modulated at 1 kbps and a high-speed camera with IS operating at 1000 fps. Our experimental results validate that additional bit streams (layer-2 and -3), aligned in the layer-1 STC matrix pair, are extracted with no errors when the receiver comes within 155m and 55 m, respectively, from the LED array, without decreasing 210m of the transmission distance of layer-1 bit stream.
Abstract: This invited paper focuses on a high-speed image sensor as a visible light communication (VLC) reception device to develop the intelligent transport systems (ITS) application using VLC technique. We refer to the VLC using a high-speed image sensor as image-sensor-based VLC. A major advantage of the image sensor is the ability to spatially separate multiple sources. Based on this ability, we proposed several methods for the image-sensor-based VLC in our previous researches. Especially, we focused on unique characteristics of the image sensor and proposed the hierarchical coding and the overlay coding to improve the data reception performance. However, to perform the image-sensor-based VLC in an actual environment, the receiver has to acquire the VLC transmitter from captured images before recovering data. Namely, the VLC transmitter acquisition and tracking are critical problem. the image-sensor-based VLC technique. This invited paper introduces two proposed methods to acquire the VLC transmitter from images captured by the image sensor.
Stochastic resonance (SR) is an interesting phenomenon in that noise enhances system response. Despite attractive phenomenon of SR that noise enhances system response, enhancement of the weak signal below device sensitivity, and few researchers have addressed the SR effect in communication systems. This paper discusses the SR effect in communication systems. We focus on the problem in which communication cannot be established when the received signal strength is below receiver sensitivity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the bit error rate (BER) performance of the SR receiver and reveal the SR effect in communication systems. We propose an analysis method for the SR receiver using a non-dynamical device that exhibits SR effect. The numerical results show that the SR effect can improve the BER compared to a system without SR. The contribution of the paper is two folds: The first contribution of our present study is that the BER of the SR receiver using a non-dynamical device can analytically be derived. The second contribution of our study is that the number of samples per symbol, the received signal amplitude, and the receiver sensitivity are three important parameters. We further derive the maximum performance gain by the SR system. Although our focus is on primary communication systems; however, our findings can be applied to other systems.
Shlomi Arnon, Jae Kyun Kwon, Sang Hyun Lee, Wen-De Zhong, Zixiong Wang, Mohsen Kavehrad, Weizhi Zhang, Zhengyuan Xu, Chen Gong, Bo Bai, Kang Tae-Gyu, Klaus-Dieter Langer, Shinichiro Haruyama, Takaya Yamazato
Cambridge University Press
2015幎2æ
Y. Ohira, E. Souke, S. Arai, T. Yamazato, T. Yendo, H. Okada, T. Fujii and K. Kamakura
RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.274-277, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2015幎2æ
The present paper considers receiving characteristics of an image-sensor-based visible light communication (VLC) usingãan LED and a high-speed-image sensor. In general, a size of LED on an image decreases with increasing a communication distance. In this case, the receiver is difficult to recover data because the intensity of brightness of LED (i.e., luminance) cannot be enough recognized from the image. However,ãthe previous studies about the image-sensor-based VLC have not enough discussed the communication distance and the recognition of LED on the image, i.e., the receiving characteristics. We focus on the communication distance and investigates the relationship between the distance and the receiving characteristics in the image-sensor-based VLC.
We propose a road-to-vehicle Visible Light Communication (VLC) system for ITS. Here, the communication between road and a vehicle is approached using an LED array as a transmitter and an on-vehicle high-speed camera as a receiver. Modulation is conducted at the transmitter by blinking LEDs in high frequency and demodulation is conducted at the receiver by capturing the blinking patterns of the transmitter, by processing the high-speed camera images captured in high frame rate. This paper proposes an effective image processing method for capturing those blinking patterns. Out door communication experiments of the proposed VLC system are also present.
2014
M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, T. Fujii, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K. Kamakura
IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, pp.535-540, Austin, USA
Visible light communication (VLC) using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is drawing much attention. There are two types of VLC reception devices, a photodiode and an image sensor. VLC using image sensor is called image sensor based VLC. As the receiver only uses the image sensor pixels that sense LED transmission sources and discards other pixels, including those sensing noise sources, image sensor based VLC is an attractive solution for outdoor mobile applications. However, little evidence is available for channel modeling of image sensor based VLC in mobile outdoor environments, especially for motion modeling of VLC transmitter. In this paper, we propose a motion model of VLC transmitter. In particular, we consider three cases; infrastructure-to-vehicle VLC (I2V-VLC), vehicle-to-infrastructure VLC (V2I-VLC), and vehicle-to-vehicle VLC (V2V-VLC). As a result, we show that the motion model of the VLC transmitter on the captured image for the three aforementioned situations (i.e., I2V-VLC, V2I-VLC, and V2V-VLC) can be expressed in the identical pinhole camera model.
E. Souke, Y. Ohira, S. Arai, T. Yamazato, T. Yendo, H. Okada, T. Fujii and K. Kamakura
Proceedings of 2014 IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Circuit Networks (NCN'14), pp. 93-94, Tokushima, Japan
2014幎12æ
The present paper considers an optical spatial channel in visible light communication (VLC) using LED and a high-speed camera. In general, the optical spatial channel affects the communication performance. However, the previous studies have not enough discussed the channel for VLC. This study focuses on the communication distance, which is one of channel parameters, and investigates the relationship between the distance and a receiving characteristic in the VLC.
Light-emitting diode (LED) transmitters based optical wireless communication (OWC) systems offer the potential for new generation communication systems. Particularly, an image sensor based OWC systems consist of the LED transmitters and camera receivers are expected to contribute to intelligent transport system (ITS) for driving supports. For high achievable data rates, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based OWC systems have attracted a great deal of attention. Despite attractive features of optical OFDM, only few attempts have so far been made to adopt it as a modulation scheme of an image sensor based OWC system. There remains a need for an evaluation of adopting an optical OFDM to the image sensor based OWC systems. Another important issue needs to be addressed is the performance degradation due to a frequency response of an actual image sensor device, especially a signal attenuation loss in higher frequency. In addition to such loss, a narrow band noise generated by its circuits also degrades the performance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate BER performances of the optical-OFDM using an actual image sensor device, the optical communication image sensor (OCI). From simulation results, it is found that the frequency response and the narrowband noise at 12MHz of the OCI lead to the significant reduction of BER performances. Additionally, the results shows that ACO-OFDM shows a little better performance compared to DCO-OFDM with the same bandwidth efficiency.
M. Kinoshita, T. Yamazato, H, Okada, T. Fujii, S. Arai, T. Yendo, K. Kamakura
IEEE Asia Pacific Conferece on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), pp.332-335, Okinawa, Japan
In image sensor based VLC, transmitter acquisition and tracking are critical issue. However, the fluctuation of the VLC transmitter in the image plane caused by vehicle movement, complicates correct data reception. Therefore, in this paper, we present results of channel fluctuation measurements for infrastructure-to-vehicle VLC (I2V-VLC), vehicle-to-infrastructure VLC (V2I-VLC), and vehicle-to-vehicle VLC (V2V-VLC). We analyze channel fluctuation in terms of optical flow from measured data.
This study introduces an image sensor based visible light communication (VLC) and its application to pose, position, and range estimations. There are two types of visible-light receiver: a photodiode and an image sensor. A photodiode is usually used as a reception device of VLC, and an image sensor consisting of a large number of pixels can also be used as a VLC reception device. A photodiode detects the signal intensity of incoming light, while an image sensor not only detects the incoming signal intensity but also an accurate angle of arrival of light emitted from a visible light transmitter such as a white LED light. After angles of arrival of light are detected by an image sensor, positioning and data reception can be performed. The ability of an image sensor to detect an accurate angle of arrival will provide attractive applications of VLC such as pose, position calculation, and range estimation. Furthermore, because the image sensor has the ability to spatially separate sources, outdoor positioning even with strong sunlight is possible by discarding the associated pixels of noise sources.
K. Chiga, H. Tanaka, T. Yamazato, Y. Tadokoro, S. Arai
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), Luzern, Switzerland
2014幎9æ
Stochastic Resonance (SR) is well known as a phenomenon in which the weak signal in a nonlinear system can be detected by added noise. We consider the application of SR phenomenon to a wireless communication system. The receiver using SR phenomenon can detect the subthreshold signal which is not detectable by the conventional receiver. The effect of SR receiver has been verified, but it has never been verified in radio frequency which is used by a wireless system. In this paper, we consider the implementation of SR System for Radio Frequency and evaluate its performance of Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR).
H. Tanaka, K. Chiga, T. Yamazato, Y. Tadokoro, and S. Arai
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), pp.193-196, Luzern, Switzerland
2014幎9æ
Stochastic resonance (SR) enhances system responses by increasing noise. By applying SR to a receiver, a subthreshold signal not receivable by a conventional linear receiver could be received. Previously, we proposed an analysis method of the SR receiver using a comparator, and evaluated its bit error rate performance. The comparator is known as a simple non-dynamical system exhibiting SR. However, a dynamical system can have better performance since it has a memory effect. In this sense, we propose an analysis method of the SR receiver using a Schmitt trigger known as a simple dynamical system, and evaluate its bit error rate performance. A performance comparison of the comparator and the Schmitt trigger is also shown.
The present article introduces VLC for automotive applications using an image sensor. In particular, V2I-VLC and V2V-VLC are presented. While previous studies have documented the effectiveness of V2I and V2V communication using radio technology in terms of improving automotive safety, in the present article, we identify characteristics unique to image-sensor-based VLC as compared to radio wave technology. The two primary advantages of a VLC system are its line-of-sight feature and an image sensor that not only provides VLC functions, but also the potential vehicle safety applications made possible by image and video processing. Herein, we present two ongoing image-sensor-based V2I-VLC and V2VVLC projects. In the first, a transmitter using an LED array (which is assumed to be an LED traffic light) and a receiver using a high-framerate CMOS image sensor camera is introduced as a potential V2I-VLC system. For this system, real-time transmission of the audio signal has been confirmed through a field trial. In the second project, we introduce a newly developed CMOS image sensor capable of receiving highspeed optical signals and demonstrate its effectiveness through a V2V communication field trial. In experiments, due to the high-speed signal reception capability of the camera receiver using the developed image sensor, a data transmission rate of 10 Mb/s has been achieved, and image (320 Ã 240, color) reception has been confirmed together with simultaneous reception of various internal vehicle data, such as vehicle ID and speed.
The present paper proposes a novel M-ary modulation scheme based on separation and reconstruction of deterministic chaotic dynamics for noncoherent chaos-based communications. The M-ary modulation scheme can transmit b-bit data at a time by using M=2b distinct sequences. In order to generate M distinct sequences and recover b-bit data, the proposed system separates the chaotic dynamics having the chaotic sequence by using M interleavers, and reconstructs the original sequence based on the chaotic dynamics from the separated one by using M deinterleavers. In advance, each data symbol among M symbols is allocated to each interleaver-deinterleaver pair. The transmitter selects an interleaver corresponding to a data symbol and separates the order of samples of the chaotic sequence using the selected interleaver. The receiver feeds the received sequence into all M deinterleavers and outputs M reconstructed sequences. The proposed system can reconstruct the original chaotic sequence only when the correct deinterleaver, which becomes paired with the interleaver, is selected. Therefore, the receiver can recover b-bit data by analyzing the chaotic dynamics of each reconstructed sequence. We carry out computer simulations and evaluate performances of the proposed M-ary modulation scheme.
RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp. 61-64., Hawaii, USA
2014幎2æ
The present paper focuses on an application of Stochastic Resonance (SR) for an LED visible light communication (LED-VLC) receiver. SR is well-known as a phenomenon, which enhances the response by additive noise. We consider that a weak optical signal, which is distorted due to an influence of ambient light noise, can be detected by using SR system. This study makes a simple SR circuit for LED VLC and performs its circuit experiment for exploring the possibility and availability of the LED-VLC receiver using SR system.
The present paper proposes a novel multiple-LED-arrays acquisition for an infrastructure-to-vehicle visible light communication (I2V-VLC) using LED arrays (transmitter) and an in-vehicle high-speed image sensor (receiver). In order to achieve a robust detection of LED arrays, we employ the block matching algorithm, which is a way of finding a corresponding position between two successive frames. The proposed method divides a captured image into a number of small domains (blocks) and determines if the LED array is present or absent using the block matching. We perform I2V-VLC experiments with multiple-LED arrays and evaluate the acquisition capability of the proposed method.
S. Usui, T. Yamazato, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii, H. Okada
20th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems , Tokyo, Japan
2013幎10æ
In this paper, we focus attention on visible light communication systems using an LED array as a transmitter and a high-speed camera as a receiver for road-to-vehicle communications (R2V-VLC) in intelligent transport systems. To implement R2V-VLC, it is necessary for the receiver to search the target LED array from the captured images (LED array acquisition) before data demodulation. We propose a new approach for LED array acquisition. We focus on spatio-temporal image and spatio-temporal cross-section image and show LED array in the spatio-temporal image has high time-gradient value and low space-gradient value. Using such characteristic gradient values, we propose new LED array acquisition method. As the results of the experiment in driving situation, we can achieve acquisition miss rate = 0%.
A. Ohmura, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, T. Fujii, T. Yendo, S. Arai
20th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Tokyo, Japan
2013幎10æ
In this paper, we focus on a distance estimation scheme using camera. Our distance estimation scheme is based on triangulation. The accuracy of camera based scheme is governed by resolution of a camera, or equivalently the size of pixel. Therefore we introduce phase only correlation (POC) to estimate with subpixel accuracy. As a result of experiment, we will show that our scheme achieves less than 0.3m estimation error at the distance of 60m. By using POC, the resolution of estimation reaches nearly 0.02 pixel, much less than one pixel.
K. Chiga, H. Tanaka, T. Yamazato, Y. Tadokoro, S. Arai
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), pp.269-271, Santa Fe, USA
2013幎9æ
We consider an application of Stochastic Resonance to wireless communication system. Stochastic Resonance (SR) is well known as a phenomenon in which weak signal in nonlinear system can be detected by added noise. A receiver using Stochastic Resonance (SR Receiver) can detect a weak signal which is not detectable in the conventional receiver. In this paper, we consider the implementation of bi-polar pulse SR Receiver using Schmitt Trigger and evaluate the performance in Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and Bit Error Rate (BER).
IEICE launched the new metadata search system called âI-Scoverâ on April 3, 2013[1]. For the time being, I-Scover provides the metadata search service of all papers published in IEICE transactions covering from the first edition published in 1968 up to the present edition, Technical Reports (from 2006) and international conference papers of ISPA and EMC. The total number of searchable contents reaches 150,000 as listed in Table.1. This article briefly introduces I-Scover. Before going to the details, let me start with a quiz. What phrase do you guess if you say âI-Scoverâ for three times?
H. Tanaka, K. chiga, T. Yamazato, Y, Tadokoro, S. Arai
NANOENERGY2013, pp.58-59, Perugia, Italy
2013幎7æ
Stochastic Resonance (SR), known as a noise-enhanced phenomenon, can improve the performance of communication systems. By applying SR in the receiver, it is possible to detect a weak signal that is not detectable in the traditional linear receiver. In the SR systems, the input of multi-carrier has not ever been discussed. So this paper proposes the SR receiver for multi-carrier detection and evaluates its Bit-Error-Rate (BER) performanceïŒ
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This paper focuses on a road-to-vehicle visible light communication (VLC) system using LED traffic lights and high-speed cameras on cars. So as to improve the transmission reliability, an error correcting code like a low-density parity-check (LDPC) is applied to the road-to-vehicle VLC system. The decoder of the LDPC code needs channel information in order to maximize decoding performance. Usually, it is calculated from a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or bit error rate (BER) of a channel, where noise is a dominant factor of the channel characteristic. In the road-to-vehicle VLC system, not noise but interference among LEDs decides the channel characteristic. In this paper, we propose a channel information estimation method for the road-to-vehicle VLC system. The proposed method estimates a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) from the receiving image, and calculates the channel information using the SIR. The proposed method is evaluated by experiment. As a result, the proposed method can achieve almost the same performance with the optimum case, and then maximize the decoding performance.
T. Kasashima, T. Yamazato, H. OKada, T. Fujii, T. Yendo, S. Arai
IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC), Dresden, Germany
This paper aims to improve the transmission distance for the road-to-vehicle visible light communication system (R2V-VLC) using LED array and high-speed camera by reducing interference caused at the receiver. As we can transmit multiple data using LED array and high-speed camera, parallel data transmission can be possible. However, due to the diffusion of LED and the finiteness of the pixel size of image sensor, the focused LED will affect not only the actual corresponding pixel but also its surrounding pixels. We call this phenomenon as âinterpixel interference (IPI)â and it causes degradation in error rate performance. To mitigate the IPI, we propose IPI cancellation scheme for the R2V-VLC system. As the results of the experiment, we can extend the error-free distance from 40m to 60m by the IPI cancellation.
T. Yamazato
IEICE Communications Society – GLOBAL NEWSLETTER Vol. 37, No. 2, Jun., 2013.
2013幎6æ
The IEICE launched new metadata search system called I-Scover (http://i-scover.ieice.org) from April 3rd, 2013. I-Scover provides metadata search of the IEICE transactions papers (from its first edition published in 1968), Technical Reports (from 2006) and international conference papers of ISPA and EMC. The total of the contents that can be searched is more than 150,000. This article briefly introduces I-Scover. Before going to detail, let me start with a quiz. What phrase do you guess if you say I-Scover for three times?
T. Yamazato, I. Takai, H. Okada, T. Fujii, T. Yendo, S. Arai, M. Andoh, K. Yasutomi, K. Kagawa, S. Kawahito
International Symposium on Optical Wireless Communications, Beijing Jade Palace Hotel, China
2013幎6æ
This talk introduces visible light communication (VLC) for automotive applications using an image sensor. In particular, vehicle-to-infrastructure visible light communication (V2I-VLC) and vehicle-to-vehicle visible light communication (V2V-VLC) are presented. Previous studies have documented the effectiveness of V2I and V2V communication using radio technology for improving automotive safety. In this talk, I identify characteristics unique to the introduced image sensor based VLC as compared to radio wave technology. The advantages of VCL are twofold: the line-of-sight feature of visible light links and an image sensor that provides not only the VLC function but also vehicle safety applications using image and video processing. We present two on-going image sensors based V2I-VLC and V2V-VLC projects.
T. Ito, T. Yendo, S. Arai, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, T. Fujii
Proc. SPIE 8663, Video Surveillance and Transportation Imaging Applications, 86630V, Burlingame, California, USA
RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp. 225-228, Hawaii, USA
2013幎3æ
This paper analyzes the performance of the error-correcting method, which was proposed in the previous research, using the separation and the reconstruction of chaos for noncoherent chaos communications. Especially, we focus on a number of transmitting data and a combination of symbols (i.e., data pattern). We consider that the capability of the error correction depends on the number of data and the data pattern because the proposed method performs the error correction using successive data symbols. This study performs simulations for the number of data and the data pattern, and evaluates BER performance of the proposed method.
T. Fukumoto, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Yamazato, H. Okada and T. Fujii
RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp. 33-36, Hawaii, USA
2013幎3æ
This paper develops a simple simulator for the visible light communication (VLC) system using a LED traffic light and a camera for intelligent transport systems (ITS). We use image processing techniques for simulating effects of optical spatial channel which is a unique channel in VLC. We describe a system model of the VLC simulator and perform the simulation with various parameters of the image processing.
This paper aims to the improve the data rate for the visible light communication system using LED array and high-speed camera. Previously, we have proposed the decoding algorithm using inverted signals for driving situation. However, using this method the data rate become a half, because we transmit original signals and inverted signals alternately for LED array tracking. In this paper, we propose the data rate improving method for overlay coding which is coding method that overlay two data which are called as the long range data and the short range data. In the proposed method, for the long range data, we transmit original signals and inverted signals alternately. On the other hand, for the short range data, we transmit only original signals while we transmit inverted signals of long range data. We confirm that we can improve data rate as compared with the previous method.
T. Fukumoto, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Yamazato, H. Okada and T. Fujii
Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Circuit Networks (NCN'12), pp. 124-127, Tokushima, Japan
2012幎12æ
This paper develops a simple simulation program for visible light communication (VLC) systems using LED (Transmitter) and a camera (Receiver). In the simulation, we generate an image of LED array transmitter which consists of LEDs arranged in a square matrix. In addition, effects of optical spatial channel, which is a unique channel in VLC, are constructed by using image processing techniques. We describe a system model of the VLC simulator and carry out the simulation with various parameters of the image processing.
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), pp.801-804, Palma, Majorca, Spain
2012幎10æ
This paper focuses on characteristics of the chaotic dynamics and improves our previous errorcorrecting method using them for noncoherent chaos communications. Our previous method is performed by using a chaotic sequence generated according to the chaotic dynamics. In this case, it is very difficult to recover data without a successive sequence based on the chaotic dynamics. We focus on this feature and consider that an improved method separates and reconstructs the chaotic dynamics of the sequence according to a specific rule. Namely, the separation and reconstruction of the chaotic dynamics can be applied for our improved method as additional information. As results of simulations, we have confirmed that the advantage gained in BER performance of our improved method is about 2–2.5 dB compared to a conventional method (without coding).
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As for cluster-based wireless sensor networks (WSNs), cluster lifetime is one of the most important subjects in recent researches. Besides reducing the energy consumptions of the clusters, it is necessary to make the clusters achieve equal lifetimes so that the whole network can survive longer. In this paper, we focus on the cluster lifetimes in multi-hop WSNs with cooperative multi-input single-output scheme. With a simplified model of multi-hop WSNs, we change the transmission schemes, the sizes and transmission distances of clusters to investigate their effects on the cluster lifetimes. Furthermore, linear and uniform data aggregations are considered in our model. As a result, we analyze the cluster lifetimes in different situations and discuss the requirements on the sizes and transmission distances of clusters for equal lifetimes.
This paper addresses the cluster partitioning problem in wireless sensor networks deployed in a continuous area. We present the model of the network and describe its operational details firstly. Both single-hop and multi-hop transmissions with cooperative Multi-Input Single-Output (MISO) scheme are considered for the inter-cluster communications. Besides, uniform and linear data fusions are discussed. Then the calculations of energy consumptions are derived. Different from other researches, the energy consumptions of intra-cluster communication in each cluster are included and modeled as functions of the cluster size. Finally, we simulate all possible cluster partitions by changing the numbers of clusters and cooperative transmitting nodes, and find the maximal network lifetimes. As a result, the relationships between cluster partitions and network lifetimes are clarified in different situations.
H. Tanaka, T. Yamazato, S. Arai
RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Commuations and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.64-67, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2012幎3æ
Stochastic Resonance (SR), known as a noise-enhanced phenomenon, can improve the performance of commutation systems. In this paper, we present a preliminary study on SR and its application to BPSK receiver. We discuss a basic question arises from a receiver using SR that shall we perform SR process in a radio-frequency (RF) band or in a baseband (BB)? As results, we found that SR process in RF band shows better Bit Error Rate (BER) performance. This comes from the fact that a down conversion process that reduces the signal amplitude causes weak noise suppression by SR. While a double frequency term obtained also by the down conversion process do not affect much to the noise reduction performance.
S. Arai, S. Ozaki, T. Yamazato, Y. Nishio
RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.60-63, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2012幎3æ
This paper analyzes a stochastic resonance (SR) in a quadruple-well potential, which extended the SR in a doublewell potential, to control of SR. For achieving the control of SR, it is important to analyze the state of the SR by injecting the noise. In this study, we calculate existence probabilities of the SRâs state to analyze how the state changes by a noise intensity.
T. Yamaoka, Y. Hara, N. Fukui, H. Kubo, T. Yamazato
IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol .E95-B, no. 2, pp.643-646
2012幎2æ
Cooperative diversity using space-time codes offers effective space diversity with low complexity, but the scheme needs the space-time coding process in the relay nodes. We propose a simple cooperative relay scheme that uses space-time coding. In the scheme, the source node transmits the Alamouti coded signal sequences and the sink node receives the signal sequence via the two coordinated relay nodes. At the relay nodes, the operation procedure is just permutation and forwarding of the signal sequence. In the proposed scheme, none of the relay nodes need quadrature detection and space-time coding and the simple relay process offers effective space diversity. Moreover, simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed relay process by some simulations.
International Symposium on EcoTopia Science (ISETS), p.106, Nagoya, Japan
2011幎12æ
Solar-powered wireless sensor networks are attracting attention for outdoor long time operation such as environmental monitoring. Even if sensor nodes are charged by solar energy, nodes far from the BS (Base-Station) are stopped due to the lack of energy during nighttime. To prevent this problem, we consider the use of cooperative transmission. In cooperative transmission, energy consumption is balanced among the nodes because of the use of another node as a relay for data transmission of distant nodes. The conventional scheme to select a relay node is based on available battery energy and the expectation of energy consumption of each node. In this paper, we propose a relay selection scheme which is based on the prediction of harvested energy in addition to the available battery energy and the expected value of energy consumption. We evaluate the proposed scheme through packet delivery ratio and show its effectiveness.
T. Yamazato
Asia Regional OpenCourseWare Conference (AROCC) 2011, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
Y. Shiraki, T. Nagura, T. Yamazato, S. Arai, T. Yendo, T. Fujii, H. Okada
18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems , Orlando, Florida, USA
2011幎10æ
In this paper, we focus attention on the visible light communication systems using an LED array as a transmitter and a high-speed camera as a receiver for road-to-vehicle communications in intelligent transport systems. Previously, we have proposed the hierarchical coding scheme which enables reception of high-priority data even if the receiver is far from the transmitter and have confirmed the effectiveness of the hierarchical coding scheme from results of primitive implementation experiments. However, there are many important works to develop the real-time communication system for an actual driving situation. In this paper, we discuss a robust receiver design in an actual driving situation. We introduce a series of image processing operations and demonstrate their effectiveness by field trials. As the results of the field trials, we have achieved 16kbps transmission and error-free communication up to communication distance of 70m using 16x16 LED array (transmitter) and high-speed camera (receiver) with the frame rate of 1000.
This letter investigates the cluster lifetime of single-hop wireless sensor networks with cooperative Multi-Input Single-Output (MISO) scheme. The energy consumptions of both intra-cluster and out-cluster communications are considered. Moreover, uniform and linear data aggregations are discussed. It is found the optimal transmission scheme varies with the distance from the cluster to the base station. More interestingly and novelly, the effect of cluster size on the cluster lifetime has been clarified.
S. Nishimoto, T. Nagura, T. Yamazato, T. Yendo, T. Fujii, H. Okada, S. Arai
International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp.1704-1709, Washington D.C., USA
This paper aims to improve the visible light communication system using LED array and high-speed camera by proposing what we call âoverlay codingâ. âOverlay codingâ is a new coding method to realize a hierarchical coding, through which a high-priority data can be received even if the receiver is far from a transmitter. Conventionally, the hierarchical coding has been realized through the wavelet transform that has a limitation of number and disposition of LEDs, and as a result it does not always match with the design of the transmitters (e.g. traffic lights, etc.) used in real life. To solve the limitation problem, we propose a more flexible way of designing the application of LEDs depending on the transmitters. In particular, overlay coding is realized through the procedures of coding and decoding. In coding, we replace one LED with a flexible number of LEDs, and the number depends on whether the data is high-priority or low-priority, then high-priority data and low-priority data are overlaid. In decoding, we first obtain the high-priority data, and then the low-priority data using retrieved high-priority data. The experimental result shows that the distance for receiving error-free data is extended from 30m to 70m in the overlay coding.
Our goal is the improvement of the node activity rate in solar-powered wireless sensor networks. We consider the application of a cooperative transmission scheme that uses a relay node when a node sends data to reduce the consumption of energy of the entire network. However, if we do not consider the variations in energy harvesting, the node activity rate declines during nighttime. In this paper, we smooth out the day-and-night node activity rate variations by introducing the new inactive node reactivation condition and achieve the required high node activity rate.
Dr. Takaya Yamazato is a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, where he also heads the OpenCourseWare (OCW) team. The Education Insider caught up with him after the 2011 OCW Consortium conference to learn more about Nagoya's unique approach to putting course materials on the Web.
T. Yamazato, S. Haruyama
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan
2011幎6æ
Visible light communications (VLC) is the latest optical wireless communications technologies that uses low-power light emitting diodes, or LEDs, not only to provide light but also to broadcast data. LEDs are extremely energy-efficient and predicted to become widespread in general lighting application. It is expected that LED market will reach $29 billion in 2017 that is comparable to today's NAND and DRAM markets [1]. Because LED is a solid-state lighting device, it can be modulated at high-speed compared with other lighting sources. VLC uses LEDs, which send data by flashing light at speeds undetectable to the human eye. The pioneer of VLC using LEDs is Professor Masao Nakagawa of Keio University. His first paper on this subject appeared in the early 2000, together with his successor Prof. Shinichiro Haruyama, the instructor of this tutorial. Later in 2003, he formed Visible Light Communication Consortium (VLCC). Now VLCC is lead by Prof. Haruyama. Please see the following video, an interview of Prof. Haruyama about VLC, which has been broadcast by NHK World in June 4, 2009. http://www.naka-lab.jp/movie/nhk_world.wmv So far various experimental VLC systems and prototypes are demonstrated. Such includes 4.8kbps visible light ID as an infrastructure to mobile-terminal application, independent sound transmission through RGB visible lights and 100Mbps VLC wireless LAN system. Using LED array, the data rate of 1 Gbps achieved by Keio University (Prof. Haruyama) that is the fastest at the moment [1]. In terms of longer range, there has been a demonstration by VLCC that achieved 1kbps transmission of the distance 2km, that is the world's longest distance for VLC. Samsung and ETRI are also active in developing VLC applications. They have demonstrated 120Mbps full duplex mobile-to-mobile transmission and 100Mbps signboard transmission. Please see the following video of Nakagawa lab. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEh5f49LsB4 Widespread use of LEDs in traffic applications and growing interest in Intelligent Transport System (ITS) presents an opportunity for VLC. Data transmission using LED traffic lights, LED road illumination, and LED brake lights are typical application. Dr. Yamazato, the instructor of this tutorial, is a leader in VLC application to ITS and he recently achieved 16kbps data transmission and distance up to 70m in a driving situation with a vehicle moving with 30km/h. Today VLC using LED is a hot topic and VLC projects have been initiated in Europe and US. In 2006 Siemens launched VLC project. Later in 2008, European Commission established OMEGA project with a consortium of 20 European partners from industry and the scientific community [3]. Meanwhile, in 2008, the US National Science Foundation has approved a grant of $18.5 million to help establish and the Engineering Research Center focuses on VLC. The members of the Center include the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, Boston University and the University of New Mexico. The University of California also have launched five-year research project called the Ubiquitous Communication by Light (UC-Light) that is founded with $3.5 million from the University. The project is anticipated to begin in 2009 and run for five years. VLC is in the process of standardization by the IEEE 802.15 TG7 and VLCC as well as other standard organizations. The first VLC specification standard was released from JEITA in conjunction with VLCC in 2007. Later in 2008, VLCC released their first specification standard adopting and expanding the IrDA physical layer. IrDA transceiver transmission wavelength (IrDA physical layer) is expanded to accommodate the visible light wavelength. By adapting this specification, the existing IrDA optical modules can be used for VLCC data transmission with slight modification. In January 2009, IEEE 802.15 (Wireless Personal Area Networks) Task Group 7 (Visible Light Communication) has been launched. At the 6th meeting held in November 2009 they adopted the baseline draft text for the development of the 802.15.7 standard. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce current VLC technology and its trends. Starting with an overview of VLC, participants will learn basics of VLC, on-going standardization activities and VLC. We will provide some experimental results and furthermore detail to enhance VLC application.
T. Yamazato
International Symposium on Emerging Short Range Communications, Room 1-312, FIT Building, Tsinghua University, China
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, Vol.E94-A No.3 pp.964-971
2011幎3æ
Ultra-Wideband is an attractive technology for short range positioning, especially indoors. However, for normal 3D Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) positioning, at least four receivers with an unblocked direct path to the transmitter are required. A requirement that is not always met. In this work, a novel method for TDOA positioning using only three receivers is presented. TDOA positioning with three receivers is possible by exploiting the knowledge of some of the indoor features, namely positions of big flat reflective surfaces, for example ceiling and walls. The proposed method was verified using data from a measurement campaign.
H. C. N. Premachandra, T. Yendo, M. P. Tehrani, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto
The Journal of the Institute of Television Engineers of Japan, vol.65, no.3, pp.354-360
2011幎2æ
We propose a visible light road-to-vehicle communication system at intersection as an ITS (Intelligent Transport System) technique. In this system, the communication between a vehicle and an LED traffic light is conducted using an LED traffic light as a transmitter and an on-vehicle high-speed camera as a receiver. The LEDs in the transmitter emit light at high frequency, and those emitted light is captured by the high-speed camera for communications. Here, the luminance value of the LEDs in the transmitter should be found, and then it should be tracked in consecutive frames while the vehicle is moving by processing the images from the high-speed camera. In this paper, we propose new algorithms for finding and tracking the transmitter, which result in increased communication speed and data rate compared to the previous methods. Experiments using appropriate images showed the effectiveness of the proposals.
In this paper, we focus on a road-to-vehicle visible light communication (VLC) system using LED traffic lights. In this system, an LED traffic light consists of a 2-dimensional LED array (2D LED array), and cars are equipped with high-speed 2-dimensional cameras (2D image sensors). An important issue of this system is frame loss. Sometimes, 2D image sensor in a car fails to get a frame. So as to mitigate the influence of frame loss, we propose to apply erasure coding to the road-to-vehicle VLC system. In the proposed system, a data sequence is encoded by LDPC code whose length is much longer than the size of 2D LED array. In addition, code synchronization is required for the proposed system. We also propose a code synchronization scheme, which makes use of error detection capability of LDPC code. We evaluate the performance of our proposed system, and show that it can recover frame loss for high SNR when less than 8 frames among total 18 frames are lost. In addition, we show that our proposed code synchronization scheme can ignore its errors.
K. Maeno, T. Yendo, M. P. Tehrani, T. Fujii, H. Okada, T. Yamazato, M. Tanimoto
International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT), Jakarta, Indonesia
2011幎1æ
Previous studies on visible light communication uses visually lighting LEDs. However, LEDs are not always lighting. In this paper, we propose visible light communication method using visually non-lighting LEDs. This method enables us to communicate in different situations, e.g. using visually non-lighting tail lamps of cars or visually non-lighting traffic lights. We realize visually non-lighting LEDs by reducing luminescence energy of LEDs according to the brightness in the environment. To reduce luminescence energy of LEDs, we reduce the number of emitting LEDs, increase the interval of emitting, and decrease the luminance of emitting LEDs. In our research we consider the case that the transmitter is tail lamps of cars and the receiver is high-speed camera. We conduct two types of experiments to demonstrate the performance of the proposed system. One is to confirm that LEDs are visually non-lighting. The other is measurement of Bit Error Rate of communication using visually non-lighting LEDs. Experimental results demonstrate that it is possible to make communication using visually non-lighting LEDs. In our future work, we plan to use different sensor devices such as photo diode or CCD in order to decrease the error rate in communication.
T. Masuda, T. Yendo, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, M. P. Tehrani, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto
International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT), Jakarta, Indonesia
2011幎1æ
In this paper, we propose the new visible light road-to-vehicle communication system. We use the LED traffic light as the transmitter and the high-speed camera on the vehicle as the receiver. In this system, the data is encoded hierarchically and assign with the each frequency components of the image. We use the DFT for hierarchical encoding considering channel characteristic and quantization of the luminance. The communication experiments were conducted to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.
H. C. N. Premachandra, T. Yendo, M. P. Tehrani, T. Yamasato, H. Okada, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto
International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT), Jakarta, Indonesia
2011幎1æ
Visible Light Communication(VLC) has been introduced as a new wireless communication method. In this paper, we propose a VLC system for Intelligent Transport System (ITS) to communicate between infrastructure and the vehicle. In this system, we use a LED array as a transmitter and on-vehicle high speed camera as a receiver. Here, LEDs in the transmitter emit light in 500Hz and the emission patterns are used to achieve communication, by capturing them using the high speed camera in high frame rate. The images captured by high speed camera are processed to find the transmitter, track the found transmitter, and capture the emission pattern of transmitter in consecutive frames. In our previous work, we proposed algorithms to finding and tracking. In this paper, we introduce method to capture the emission pattern of the transmitter. Then out door communication experiments were conducted to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed VLC system.
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), FLORIDA, U.S.A
2010幎12æ
In this paper, we propose two dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) schemes, a game theory based DBA and a successive DBA, for satellite/terrestrial integrated mobile communication system (STICS). The game theory based DBA allocate the bandwidth according to a utility function based on a weighted demand bandwidth of both satellite and terrestrial system. The successive DBA recursively allocates an unit of bandwidth according to a weighted number of bandwidth unfilled cells of both satellite and terrestrial systems, until the total bandwidth is fulfilled. As results, both DBA outperform the conventional fixed bandwidth allocation scheme. Between two proposed DBA, the successive DBA shows better spectral improvement ratio than the game theory based DBA.
K. Kobayashi, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol.E93-B, no.12, pp.3509-3513
We develop a mathematical framework for the extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) analysis to assess the convergence behavior of maximum a posteriori (MAP)-based joint iterative decoding of correlated sources, which are separately encoded and transmitted over noisy channels. Unlike the previous work, side information about the correlation is not perfectly given at the joint decoder but is extracted from decoder output and updated in an iterative manner. The presented framework provides a convenient way to compare between schemes. We show that it allows us to easily and accurately predict joint decoding gain and turbo cliff position.
J. Kietlinski-Zaleski, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol.E93-B, no.12, pp.3624-3631
2010幎12æ
Ultra-Wideband is an attractive technology for short range positioning, especially indoors. However, for normal Time of Arrival (ToA) positioning, at least three receivers with unblocked direct path to the transmitter are required. A requirement that is not always met. In this work, a novel algorithm for ToA positioning using only two receivers is presented. This is possible by exploiting the knowledge of some of the indoor features, namely positions of big flat reflective surfaces, for example ceiling and walls. The proposed algorithm was tested using data from a measurement campaign.
H. C. N. Premachandra, T. Yendo, M. P. Tehrani, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto
Workshop on Picture Coding and Image Processing, PCSJ2010/IMPS2010, Nagoya, Japan
2010幎12æ
Intelligent transport system has been introduced to reduce traffic problems such traffic accidents and traffic congestions. In this paper, we introduce a receiver for a road to vehicle Visible Light Communication (VLC) system which is proposed as an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) technique. In this system, an on-vehicle high-speed camera is used as a receiver and an LED array is used as a transmitter. VLC is a wireless communication using luminance. Here, transmitter send information by emitting light and receiver receive them by capturing the luminance of emitting LEDs in the array(Luminance: whether each LED is on or off). For capturing the Luminance, it is necessary to find the transmitter and track it in consecutive frames. In our previous works we introduced methods for finding and tracking. In this paper, we shortly explain the proposed transmitter finding and tracking methods and then a new method is proposed for capturing the luminance of LEDs to achieve communication.
T. Masuda, T. Yendo, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, M. P. Tehrani, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto
Workshop on Picture Coding and Image Processing, PCSJ2010/IMPS2010, Nagoya, Japan
2010幎12æ
This paper discusses the visible light road-to-vehicle communication system at intersection as one of ITS (Intelligent Transport System) technique. The communication between a vehicle and an LED traffic light is approached using an LED traffic light as a transmitter, and on-vehicle high-speed camera as a receiver. In this system, it is able to send data by blinking the LEDs of the traffic light in two dimensional patterns, and able to receive them by high-speed camera with image processing. Here, we aim to conduct long-distance high-speed visible light communication. When the distance between transmitter and receiver is far, the image of the LED traffic light captured by on-vehicle high-speed camera is very small. So, if the data are put on two dimension patterns without modification, data would be mistaken, because the two dimension patterns canât be realized correctly. To solve this problem, data are encoded hierarchically before they are lighted by the LED traffic light. This is called as hierarchical encoding that the data are assigned with each spatial frequency.
K. Maeno, T. Yendo, M. P. Tehrani, T. Fujii, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, M. Tanimoto
Workshop on Picture Coding and Image Processing, PCSJ2010/IMPS2010, Nagoya, Japan
2010幎12æ
The proposed visible light communication method uses visually non-lighting LEDs, which enables us to communicate in different situations, e.g. using visually non- lighting tail lamps of cars or visually non-lighting traffic lights. We realize visually non-lighting LEDs by reducing luminescence energy of LEDs according to the brightness in the environment. Experimental results demonstrate that it is possible to make communication using visually non-lighting LEDs.
IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol.E93-B, no.11, pp.2959-2962
2010幎11æ
We consider a distributed transmission of data packet to a sink where the distance of a sensor node to a sink is much longer than the maximum communication range of each sensor node. We give a simple modification to the transmitter, i.e., multiplication of random phase before the transmission. Thanks to Turbo Code, it is possible to extend the trans- mission range as the received amplitude varies symbol by symbol for our scheme while whole data packet may be lost for the conventional scheme. In this letter, we report the experimental results of our scheme equivalently developed using visible light communication.
S. Mitsuya, K. Kobayashi, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), no. FA1-1-3, pp.968-973, Tokyo, Japan
In a cooperative spectrum sensing system, many nodes perform spectrum sensing and report their decisions to one fusion center via control channels. This paper considers efficient use of the frequency band for the control channels. For this purpose, sequential-test is introduced for the local decision at each node. With this scheme, the transmission timing of the reports from the nodes becomes at random and necessary maximum bandwidth for the control channels decreases. Numerical results show that this sequential-test-base-scheme not only decreases the number of simultaneous reports but also improves sensing reliability. For further improvement, this paper also introduces a decision scheme at the fusion center based on probabilistic features of the reports from the nodes.
J. Naganawa, K. Kobayashi, M. Katayama, T. Yamazato
International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), no. FA1-1-4, pp.974-979, Tokyo, Japan
This manuscript considers a secondary system sharing the spectrum with the primary system at the same time and on the same frequency. We propose a cognitive overlay system in which the secondary system relays the primary signal and piggybacks its own data on it. Furthermore, the secondary system uses the channel coding based on the dirty paper coding (DPC). The result of the analysis shows that the proposed scheme allows the secondary system to communicate at the same speed as the primary system without any harm to it.
B. Mongol, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA), Taichung, Taiwan
2010幎10æ
Pulse-shaping OFDM, or more generally BFDM and BFDM/OQAM, systems are originally proposed to combat inter- carrier interference (ICI) caused by time-variance of the channel. The main property that makes these signals robust against ICI is that they allow to employ time-frequency well localized pulses, particularly Gaussian pulse which has the best time-frequency localization. However, this property also suppresses the outband or inband spectral leakage of the BFDM and BFDM/OQAM signal, making them attractive physical layer modulation scheme for cognitive radio. In this paper we analyze the power density spectra of the BFDM and BFDM/OQAM signals and numerically evaluate the inband and outband spectra for truncated Gaussian pulses.
S. Arai, Y. Nishio and T. Yamazato
NOLTA, IEICE, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 196-206, Oct. 2010.
2010幎10æ
This paper proposes a novel error-correcting scheme using chaotic dynamics for noncoherent chaos communications. In our proposed system, two successive chaotic sequences are generated from the same chaotic map; the second sequence is generated with an initial value which is the last value of the first sequence. In this case, successive chaotic sequences having the same chaotic dynamics are created. This feature gives the receiver additional information to correctly recover the information data and thus improves the bit error performance of the receiver. As results of the computer simulation, we confirm that the advantage gained in BER performance of the proposed error-correcting method is about 1-1.5 dB compared to conventional method. In addition, we achieve that the proposed error-correcting scheme is performed without the new additional redundancy code by using the chaotic dynamics.
Ultra-Wideband is an attractive technology for short range positioning, especially indoors. However, for normal 3D Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) positioning, at least four receivers with unblocked direct path to the transmitter are required. A requirement that is not always met. In this work, a novel method for TDoA positioning using only three receivers is presented and tested using real-world measurements. Positioning with three receivers is possible by exploiting the knowledge of some of the indoor features, namely positions of big flat reflective surfaces, reflectors, for example ceiling and walls.
T. Nagura, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama, T. Yendo, T. Fujii, H. Okada
IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), pp.765-769, York, United Kingdom
In this paper, we discuss on a decoding algorithm for visible light communication systems in the driving situation using an LED array transmitter and a high-speed camera receiver. We propose an LED array detection method using M-sequence and an LED array tracking method using inverted signals. We confirm that we can distinguish LED array candidates correctly with M-sequence. We also confirm that we can suppress the flicker of the LED and improve the data rate as compared with the previous method.
K. Kobayashi, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Distributed Networks (WDN), pp.484-489, Istanbul, Turkey
In densely deployed wireless sensor networks, observations of the sensor nodes are spatially correlated. In this paper, we study a joint channel decoding scheme utilizing bit correlation of the sensor observations according to bit levels of analog-digital converter (ADC). If sensor ADC output is interpreted as natural binary numeral, carry propagation may occur between adjacent ADC output values. Such carry propagation leads to the degradation of joint decoding gain. We focus on the use of Gray code for avoiding the carry propagation. The performance of our approach is demonstrated by simulations using sensor data from experiments in a real indoor environment.
J. Kietlinski-Zaleski, T. Yamazato
International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Zurich, Switzerland
Ultra-Wideband is an attractive technology for short range positioning, especially indoors. However, for normal Time of Arrival (TOA) positioning, at least three receivers with unblocked direct path to the transmitter are required. A requirement that is not always met. In our previous work \\\\cite{Kietlinski-Zaleski2010PLANS} we presented a novel 3D TOA UWB indoor positioning method that uses only two receivers. This is possible by exploiting the knowledge of some of the indoor features, namely ceiling and walls. In this work, we verify the usability of the method using measurement results in three environments: a lecture room, a cluttered laboratory and a corridor. By comparing the results of the method for three environments, we draw conclusions about its strengths and weaknesses.
As one of ITS technique, a new visible light road to- vehicle communication system at intersections is proposed. In this system, the communication between a vehicle and an LED traffic light is conducted using an LED traffic light as a transmitter, and an on-vehicle high-speed camera as a receiver. The LEDs in the transmitter emit light in high frequency and those emitting LEDs are captured by the high-speed camera for making communication. Here, the luminance value of LEDs in the transmitter should be captured in consecutive frames to achieve effective communication. For this purpose, first the transmitter should be found, then it should be tracked in consecutive frames by processing the images from the high-speed camera. In this paper, we propose new effective algorithms for finding and tracking the transmitter, which result in a increased communication speed, compared to the previous methods. Experiments using appropriate images showed the effectiveness of the proposals.
The paper discusses the optimal cluster partitioning for wireless sensor networks deployed in continuous areas. Both single-hop and multi-hop transmissions with cooperative Multi-Input Single-Output (MISO) scheme are considered for inter-cluster communications. The effects of cluster size in the energy consumption of intra-cluster communication and the amount of fused data are included in calculation. As a result, the dominant factors of the maximal network lifetimes are listed as: the cluster farthest from base station in single-hop transmission and the closest cluster in multi-hop transmission. In addition, the maximal network lifetimes of single-hop and multi-hop transmissions are compared and it is found that there exists a threshold of network size that determines which transmission is the better candidate.
S. Arai, Y. Nishio, T. Yamazato, S. Ozawa
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Paris, France
This paper considers a novel error-correcting scheme exploiting chaotic dynamics for noncoherent chaos communication. In our proposed system, two successive chaotic sequences are generated from the same chaotic map; the second sequence is generated with an initial value which is the last value of the first sequence. In this case, successive chaotic sequences having the same chaotic dynamics are created. This feature gives the receiver additional information to correctly recover the information data and thus improves the bit error performance of the receiver. Further, enhanced efficiency also comes from operating on successively modulated data; by involving less redundancy in the error correction system, it can be designed with high coding rate. In this paper, we analyze the schemeâs capability, by examining computational times and accuracy rates of error correction. bounds on its capability.
T. Nagura, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama, T. Yendo, T. Fujii, H. Okada
In this paper, we consider visible light communication systems using LED array as a transmitter and high-speed camera as a receiver for Intelligent Transport System (ITS). Previously, we have proposed the hierarchical coding scheme which allocates data to spatial frequency components of the image depending on the priority. This scheme is possible to receive information of the high-priority even if communication distance is long. However, we need to distinguish multi-valued data from the received image by using a hierarchical coding. In this paper, we propose two improved decoding methods, and demonstrate to distinguish multi-valued data more correctly in the experiment.
J. Kietlinski-Zaleski, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
IEEE/ION Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), Palm Springs, California, USA
Ultra-Wideband is an attractive technology for short range positioning, especially indoors. However, for normal Time of Arrival (ToA) positioning, at least three receivers with unblocked direct path to the transmitter are required. This requirement is not always met. In this work, a novel algorithm for ToA positioning using only two receivers is presented and validated using data from a measurement campaign. Positioning with two receivers is possible by exploiting the knowledge of some of the indoor features, namely positions of big flat reflective surfaces, for example ceiling and walls.
This paper proposes a media access control method for a multipoint cyclic data gathering system, in which each node transmits its data to the base-station periodically. In such condition, by broadcasting ACK/NACK signals from the base-station, the proposed method ensures assignment of a time slot for each node once the node succeeds to transfer its data. It is confirmed that the proposed scheme reduces packet collisions and outperforms conventional slotted-ALOHA scheme in throughput of data even with ACK/NACK errors. Furthermore the proposed scheme realizes adaptive slot assignment under cyclostationary channel environment.
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We propose a visible light road-to-vehicle communication system at intersection as one of ITS technique. In this system, the communication between vehicle and an LED array is approached using LED array as a transmitter, and on-vehicle high-speed camera as a receiver. The LEDs in the transmitter are emitted in 500Hz and those emitting LEDs are captured by a high-speed camera for making communication. Here, the luminance value of LEDs in the transmitter should be captured in consecutive frames to achieve effective communication. For this purpose, first the transmitter should be identified, then it should be tracked in consecutive frames while the vehicle is moving, by processing the images from the high-speed camera. In this paper, we mainly introduce an algorithm to track the transmitter using optical flow and edge information.
We propose an iterative channel decoding scheme for two or more multiple correlated sources. The correlated sources are separately turbo encoded without knowledge of the correlation and transmitted over noisy channels. The proposed decoder exploits the correlation of the multiple sources in an iterative soft decision decoding manner for joint detection of each of the transmitted data. Simulation results show that achieved performance for the more than two sources is also close to the Shannon and Slepian-Wolf limit and large additional SNR gain is obtained in comparison with the case of two sources. We also verify through simulation that no significant penalty results from the estimation of the source correlation in the decoding process and the code with a low error floor achieves good performance for a large number of the correlated sources.
S. Arai, Y. Nishio, T. Yamazato, S. Ozawa
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), Chateraise Gateaux Kingdom Sapporo Hotel & Spa Resort, Sapporo, Japan,
2009幎10æ
This paper proposes a new M-ary modulation scheme for noncoherent chaos-based communications. A chaotic sequence is successive based on the chaotic dynamics. Without the successive sequence based on the chaotic dynamics, general noncoherent systems are very difficult to demodulate the data. However, we consider that the systematic separation and the reconstruction of the chaotic dynamics can be applied as additional information. Namely, M -ary data symbols can be expressed by separating the chaotic dynamics purposely. We carry out computer simulations of the proposed scheme and confirm that a saving of over 3–4 dB is realized in transmitter energy by increasing M.
Y. Sugiura, T. Yamazto, M. Katayama
Third Workshop on Power Line Communications , Udine, Italy
2009幎10æ
Phase transfer functions of power-line channels often show sharp and periodic variation synchronous to the (double of) mains frequency. This is a result of impedance change of nonlinear devices connected to the power-lines. This manuscript proposes a phase estimation strategy for phase compensation at a receiver under such environment. In the proposed method, phase estimates are calculated using cyclic observation (average) of the channel phase. The numerical examples under periodic phase variation of the channel and cyclostationary noise show that the receiver with the proposed phase estimation scheme outperforms that with the conventional phase estimation, which uses average over the whole observation period without considering the periodic feature of the channel.
This manuscript proposes a cognitive radio system that shares a frequency with an existing primary system. In the proposed method, a secondary transmitter relays the primary signal and piggybacks its own data on it. Symbol error probabilities of the system are derived analytically. The result shows that the proposed system can communicate at a relatively high speed on the same frequency of the primary system without harm to it.
J. Kietlinski-Zaleski, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), pp.376-380, Vancouver, Canada
Ultra-Wideband is an attractive technology for short range positioning, especially indoors. However, for normal Time of Arrival(ToA) positioning, at least 3 receivers with unblocked direct path to the transmitter are required. A requirement that is not always met. In this work, a novel algorithm for ToA positioning using only 2 receivers is presented. This is possible by exploiting reflections from a set of known flat reflectors, for example ceiling and walls. The proposed algorithm was tested using self-developed UWB propagation simulator testbed.
T. Aman, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC), Siena-Tuscany, Italy
The recent development of large aperture on-board multi-beam antennas enables a small-size, low-powered and cellular phone like hand-held terminal as a satellite earth terminal. A single mobile terminal can communicate to both mobile satellite systems and terrestrial systems depend upon his location, QoS and availability of resources among satellite and terrestrial communication systems. In this paper, we propose a new traffic prediction scheme for the integrated satellite/terrestrial frequency sharing mobile communication system. The system shares a common frequency bandwidth in order to enhance the total capacity by a dynamic bandwidth allocation. A key for this allocation depends on a traffic prediction scheme of a few hundreds of terrestrial cells under a footprint of a satellite with a large aperture onboard multi-beam antennas. We propose three traffic predictors based on neural networks for dynamic resource allocation. The performances of the proposed schemes are evaluated in terms of the Relative Traffic Prediction Error and Maximum Traffic Prediction Error by the computer simulation. For the evaluation, we adopt the actual traffic statistic published by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan with population density of terrestrial cells based on the actual population of Aichi, Japan. As results, average traffic prediction error of less than 0.25 is achieved for the prediction interval of one hour, enough for dynamic resource allocation.
We propose a visible light road-to-vehicle communication system at intersection for ITS. In this system, the communication between vehicle and a LED traffic light is approached using LED traffic light as the transmitter, and on-vehicle high-speed camera as the receiver. The LEDs in the transmitter are emitted with 500Hz and the images of those emitting LEDs are captured by a high-speed camera for conducting communication. In this communication, it is extremely necessary to find the transmitter and detect it for consecutive frames while vehicle is moving. In this paper, we introduce proposals for finding and detecting it for consecutive frames by image processing. Experimental results using appropriate images showed the effectiveness of the proposal.
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H.C. N. Premachandra, T. Yendo, M. P. Tehrani, T. Yamazato, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto, Y. Kimura
Journal of Broadcast Engineering published by KoSBE, the Korean Society for Broadcast Engineers, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp.475-487, July 2009
2009幎7æ
We propose a visible light road-to-vehicle communication system at intersection as one of ITS technique. In this system, the communication between vehicle and a LED traffic light is approached using LED traffic light as a transmitter, and on-vehicle high-speed camera as a receiver. The LEDs in the transmitter are emitted in 500Hz and those emitting LEDs are captured by a high-speed camera for making communication. Here, the luminance value of each LED in the transmitter should be found for consecutive frames to achieve effective communication. For this purpose, first the transmitter should be identified, then it should be tracked for consecutive frames while the vehicle is moving, by processing the images from the high-speed camera. In our previous work, the transmitter was identified by getting the subtraction of two consecutive frames. In this paper, we mainly introduce an algorithm to track the identified transmitter in consecutive frames. Experimental results using appropriate images showed the effectiveness of the proposal.
Robust channel estimation scheme is essential for pulse-shaping OFDM systems in the multipath mobile environment. This paper proposes three types of channel estimation schemes for the general class of pulse-shaping OFDM systems. The first two types are suboptimal low-complexity maximum likelihood estimators. The last type is adaptive Kalman filter channel estimator. We numerically evaluate the performance of each estimator using computer simulation.
This paper proposes the error-correcting scheme without redundancy sequences based on the chaotic dynamics for noncoherent chaos communications. We generate successive chaotic sequences from the identical chaotic map. And for the next sequence we set the initial value to the end value of the former sequence. By such way we can create the successive chaotic sequences having the same chaotic dynamics. This feature gives the receiver additional information to correctly recover the received noisy signal. Therefore, by analyzing the chaotic dynamics at the receiver, it is possible to improve the error performance without redundancy signal. As results of computer simulations, we confirm about 3 dB gain in BER performance as compared with the conventional suboptimal receiver when using the short chaotic sequence length per 1 bit.
This manuscript discusses the adaptive OFDM system for narrow-band power-line communications with nonwhite and cyclostationary noise environment. The bit and power allocation algorithm is proposed with the considerations on the cyclostationarity of power-line noise. Numerical evaluation shows that the proposed method can improve the average BER performance under PLC noise environment.
J. Kietlinski-Zaleski, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
Technical Report of IEICE, vol.WBS2008-90, pp.211-216, Hakodate, Japan
2009幎3æ
Ultra-Wideband is an attractive technology for short range positioning, especially indoors. However, for normal Time of Arrival(ToA) positioning, at least 3 receivers with unblocked direct path to the transmitter are required. A requirement that is not always met. In this work, a novel algorithm for ToA positioning using only 2 receivers is presented. This is possible by exploiting reflections from one known flat reflector, for example ceiling or wall. The proposed algorithm was tested using self-developed UWB propagation simulator testbed.
H.C. N. Premachandra, T. Yendo, T. Yamazato, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto, Y. Kimura
International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT), Korean Hall of Science and Technology, Seoul, Kore
2009幎1æ
In this paper, we propose a visible light road-to-vehicle communication system at intersection as one of ITS technique. In this system, the communication between vehicle and a LED traffic light is approached using LED traffic light as the transmitter, and on-vehicle high-speed camera as the receiver. The LEDs in the transmitter are emitted with 500Hz and those emitting LEDs are captured by a high-speed camera for making communication. The images from the high-speed camera are processed to get luminance value of each LED in the transmitter. For this purpose, first transmitter should be found, then it should be tracked for each frame, and the luminance value of each LED in the transmitter should be captured. In our previous work, transmitter was found by getting the subtraction of two consecutive frames. In this paper, we mainly introduce an algorithm to detect the found transmitter in consecutive frames. Experimental results using appropriate images showed the effectiveness of the proposal.
In this paper, the energy efficiency of cooperative Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO) technique for a multi-hop wireless sensor network is investigated and compared with other transmission schemes. Firstly, we present different schemes for data transmission of the cluster farther from base station and calculate their energy consumptions. The results show that the optimal transmission scheme varies with the inter-cluster distance in different networks. Then we explore the lifetime of the network and find that it is not always the optimal to employ the multi-hop transmission and the single-hop transmission outperform the multi-hop under a certain distance threshold. In addition, the effects of the transmission bit rate and the required bit error ratio (BER) on the distance threshold are also clarified.
K. Kobayashi, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, M. Katayama
International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA), pp.930-934, Auckland, New Zealand
In densely deployed wireless sensor networks, sensor observations are spatially correlated. Furthermore, the nature of physical phenomena constitutes a temporal correlation between transmitted observations of an individual sensor node. In this paper, we propose a joint iterative channel decoding scheme using turbo codes. The proposed decoder exploits the spatial and temporal correlations of two binary data sequences to achieve additional coding gain. Simultaneously exploiting the spatial and temporal correlation, the proposed decoder achieves large performance gain.
International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems in Bangkok (SISB), PS-4, pp.69-74, Swissotel Le Concorde, Bangkok, Thailand
2008幎12æ
In this paper, we present hierarchical coding scheme using LED traffic lights and high-speed camera for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) application. If each of LEDs in traffic lights is individually modulated, parallel data transmissions are possible using a camera as a reception device. Such parallel LED-camera channel can be modeled as spatial low-pass filtered channel of which the cut-off frequency varies according to the distance. To overcome, we introduce hierarchical coding scheme based on 2D fast Haar wavelet transform.
S. Arai, Y. Nishio, T. Yamazato
Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Circuit Networks (NCN'08), pp. 49-51, Tokushima, Japan
2008幎12æ
We investigate and evaluate a suboptimal receiver using chaotic sequences with biased values. In our previous research, we investigated a differential chaos shift keying (DCSK) using chaotic sequences with biased values purposely and confirmed its better performance. However, our previous study only performed the computer simulation of DCSK using these chaotic sequences. In this study, we focus on the suboptimal receiver and evaluate its performance with chaotic sequences with biased values.
S. Arai, S. Mase, T. Yamazato, T. Yendo, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto, Y. Kimura
15th World Congress on ITS, New York, USA
2008幎11æ
In this study, we focus attention on the parallel optical wireless communication systems using LED array transmitter and a high-speed camera as the receiver for road-to-vehicle communications in ITS. Previously, we have proposed a hierarchical coding scheme which allocates data to spatial frequency components depending on the priority. This scheme is possible to receive the high priority data even if the receiver is far from the transmitter. However, since vehicles drive on a road in actual road-to-vehicle communications, there are many important works to develop the real-time communication system. For example, it is a difficult to synchronize the timing to release the shutter with the lighting cycle of LEDs, i.e., the sampling of the data. This paper details our road-to-vehicle communication system using the LED array and the high-speed camera and proposes their solutions. Moreover, based on proposed solutions, we perform a driving field trial using the LED array and a vehicle with the high speed camera. As the result, we observe the bit error rate and confirm the reception of the data during the driving.
K. Takeshima, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
International Workshop on Vision, Communications and Circuits (IWVCC), pp.149-152, Xi'an, China
2008幎11æ
In this paper, we look at communication protocol designed for cluster-based cooperative transmission. As it can increase the spatial diversity of wireless channel, cluster-based cooperative transmission is effective not only for reliable transmission but also in reduction of the transmitted power. The overall energy dissipation is, however, governed by a cluster head selection criterion. We show that the conventional random cluster head selection, as in low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH), and the best link quality cluster head selection may not be optimal for cluster-based cooperative transmission. Based on our finding, we propose a new energy-aware protocol for cluster-based cooperative transmission that considers not only the link quality but also the residual energy of sensor nodes. As results, our protocol shows the best in the availability ratio of sensor nodes and outage probability for the number of cluster-to-cluster transmissions.
S. Arai, Y. Nishio, T. Yamazato
International Workshop on Vision, Communications and Circuits (IWVCC), pp.221-224, Xi'an, China
2008幎11æ
We investigate the chaotic sequence with biased values in chaos-based communication systems. In our previous research, we investigated the the performance of chaos communications using the sequence with biased values purposely. As results, we concluded that the chaotic dynamics affect the performance of chaos communications greatly. However, our previous study only performed the computer simulation the DCSK system using the chaotic sequence with biased values. In this study, we focus on the suboptimal receiver as one of chaos communication systems and observe its performance with the chaotic sequence with biased values.
S. Mase, S. Arai, T. Yamazato, T. Yendo, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto, Y. Kimura
International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp.1113-1117, Beijing, China
In this paper, we propose an improved coding scheme for optical wireless communication systems using a LED array transmitter and a high-speed camera as the receiver on a vehicle. Previously, we have proposed a hierarchical coding scheme which allocated the data to spatial frequency components depending on the priority. In that scheme, the high-priority data can be received even if the receiver was far from the transmitter. We confirmed the advantage of the hierarchical coding scheme, but the bit error performance was not sufficient. In this paper, we divide the data into spatial frequency components, and use error correcting code for each spatial frequency componentsâ data. Experimental evaluation demonstrates the improvement in BER performance. This improvement implies that the system range increased compared to the previous method.
In this paper, we propose a new SC/MMSE Turbo equalizer for MC-CDMA to use in inter-vehicle communication (IVC). We modify the weight of the MMSE filter of SC/MMSE Turbo equalizer so that it can combat with frequency-selective fading in highly mobile IVC environment and also can mitigate the effect of multiple access interferences (MAI). As results, we show that better throughput is obtained by the proposed SC/MMSE equalization than the conventional one. The average reception range can be up to 70 [m] and the signals from 16 surrounding cars can be received. While for the conventional scheme, only three signals from the nearest cars are achieved.
S. Arai, Y. Nishio, T. Yamazato
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), pp. 652-655, Budapest, Republic of Hungary
2008幎9æ
This paper proposes the error-correcting method based on the chaotic dynamics for noncoherent chaos communications. We generate successive chaotic sequences from the identical chaotic map. And for the next sequence we set the initial value to the end value of the former sequence. By such way we can create the successive chaotic sequences having the same chaotic dynamics. This feature gives the receiver additional information to correctly recover the received noisy signal. Therefore, by analyzing the chaotic dynamics at the receiver, it is possible to improve the error performance. In other words, error performance of the receiver can be improved by the utilization of the suboptimal receiver with the analysis of chaotic dynamics of the successive received sequence. As results of computer simulations, we confirm about 3 dB gain in BER performance compared to the conventional suboptimal receiver.
This paper compares the throughput performance of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM) and multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) in inter-vehicle communications (IVC).In particular, we compare the throughputs in a situation where hidden terminals are no longer negligible. We encounter the situation in an intersection where two or more cars are crossing by. Due to the hidden terminal degradation, poor throughput performance is obtained with OFDM scheme. On the other hand, MC-CDMA has a resistance to the hidden terminals as it can support simultaneous packets. However, the transmission data rate is much slow because of the spreading. Thus the total throughput may not be as high as the OFDM. As results, we show that throughput of the OFDM is better than the MC-CDMA in a low traffic region. We found that the OFDM can communicate only with the nearest car. On the contrary, when the traffic is high, the MC-CDMA shows better throughput than the OFDM. In addition, we show that many packets can be received simultaneously in MC-CDMA. These results lead to the conclusion that when we want high-speed communication to a few cars, the OFDM is a good candidate. And when low speed but simultaneous communication with many surrounding cars is our desire, then the MC-CDMA is our choice. As MC-CDMA has a compatibility with an OFDM by setting a spreading factor to one, MC-CDMA system may be the preferable choice for IVC.
H. Okada, H. Imai, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama, K. Mase
Academy Publisher Journal of Netowkrs, vol.3, no.7, pp.34-40
2008幎7æ
Since the network topology in multihop cellular networks is flexible, multiple routes from a user station to a base station can be established. To reduce packet reception errors of wireless links, a multi-route coding scheme was proposed. An important issue of the multi-route coding is to develop an efficient route establishment scheme. In this paper, we propose a route establishment scheme for multi-route coding in multihop cellular networks. Our proposed scheme consists of a route selection method based on the bit error rate of each wireless link and a hybrid-type multiple-tree routing protocol. We evaluate the performance of our proposed scheme by a computer simulation and show the resulting improvement in the packet error.
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2008幎7æ
We consider radar network systems using multiple ultrasonic radars for parking assistance. Our radar network has an ultrasonic array emitter and multiple sensors. The ultrasonic array emitter is composed of multiple ultrasonic emitters and can emit signals to the side area which is the desired monitoring area of parking aid. Target positions are estimated by the data processing form multiple ultrasonic sensors which are set at distributed points of the front bumper. In this paper we especially describe our proposed array emitter.
This manuscript reports the measurement results of narrowband signal propagation of PLC channels. In Japan, in-house wiring is single-phase three-wire, and each branch between an outlet of 100V and the panel board is connected to one of two live conductors and the neutral. Thus a pair of outlets can be classified into three types: connected to different live conductors, connected to the same live conductors by different branches from the panel board, and on the same branch to the same live conductor. It is confirmed that the results of the measurements can be classified by these three types of paths. The results show that frequency responses of narrowband PLC channels are relatively smooth, compared with that of wideband PLC. It is also found that propagation loss in lower frequency range is larger than in higher frequency range. The time independence of narrowband PLC channels are confirmed when no electric appliance is connected to the same live conductor.
R. Chandradasa, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
IEICE General Conference, B-20-28, p.569, Kyushu, Japan
2008幎3æ
Traditional MAC protocols for Sensor Networks are mostly based on random access methods, which cause message collision and energy loss. Several TDMA based methods have been proposed to prevent signal collision with the help of a base station. We propose an algorithm which assigns time slots to sensor nodes without the help of a base station and realizes time-slot reuse.
Throughput performance of MC-CDMA systems depends on the success in managing interference arising from intercell transmission. In this paper, we propose a new intercell interference mitigation scheme for downlink MC-CDMA scheme. In the proposed scheme, a base station transmits downlink signals intermittently to mobile terminals at the edge of cell. The intercell interference can be seen as a partial interference depend upon the on and off period of the adjacent downlink signals. So it is possible for the channel equalizer to suppress this partial intercell interference by setting the weight changes in accordance with the intercell interference. As results, the frame error rate of the proposed scheme is always better than that of the conventional scheme and good throughput performance is achieved especially when the traffic is high.
2007
S. Arai, Y. Nishio, T. Yamazato
Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Circuit Networks (NCN'07), pp. 54-56, Tokushima, Japan
2007幎12æ
This paper proposes the error-correcting for noncoherent chaos communications. To improve the error performance, we focus attention on the successive chaotic sequence based on the chaotic dynamics. Concretely, error performance of a noncoherent receiver improves by analyzing the chaotic dynamics of the successive received sequence. As results of computer simulations, we confirm about 3 dB gain in BER performance compared to the conventional suboptimal receiver.
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2007幎12æ
T. Yamazato, A. Ogawa
Technical Report of IEICE, vol. 107, no. 299, SAT2007-29, pp. 59-64, Okinawa, Japan
2007幎11æ
OFDM or multicarrier systems have emerged as a key technology for current existing terrestrial wireless systems. Because of their advantages over a single carrier system, OFDM is undergoing rapid progress and inspiring numerous applications. However, many technical issues still exist for adopting OFDM to satellite communications, i.e., non-linear amplifier compensation. In this article, we present a detailed investigation of various non-linear compensation techniques and provide a better understanding of the research challenges.
We propose a contention-free medium access control (MAC) protocol for inter-vehicle communication systems that share information for the improvement of safety drive on the highway. In the proposed system, contention-free medium access is achieved by periodical one-way token transmissions. The token contains the frame information about the transmission/reception phase. While the token is relaid by one-way, the vehicle which has the token can send a packet to both up- and down-link. The token transmission interval is set not to be interfered from other transmit vehicles at a receive vehicle. In addition, multiple channels are used and allocated dynamically for every token transmission to reduce the transmission waiting time. We also evaluate the maximum end-to-end transmission delay of the proposed protocol, and clarify that the proposed protocol can guarantee the transmission within allowable delay time.
H. Hatano, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), pp.355-359, Trondheim, Norway
We consider an application of a ultrasonic array emitter to automotive targets detection systems for short-range. Ultrasonic sensors are low cost and widely used. However detectable ranges do not meet the requirements for short-range applications, such as parking aid systems. In this paper, we propose a method which may achieve the emission to a desired area within limited time. We evaluate the expected accuracy of target position estimations by computer simulations. As a result, we show the ability of the ultrasonic sensors for parking aid systems.
H. Okada, H. Imai, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama, K. Mase
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), Baltimore, USA
In the multihop cellular networks, multiple routes from a user station to a base station can be established because of the flexibility of network topology. In order to reduce packet errors of wireless transmissions, we proposed the multi-route coding scheme, in which packets are encoded and divided into subpackets, and they are transmitted on several routes from the user station to the base station. In order to improve the performance of the multi-route coding, a route selection scheme is very important issue. In this paper, we propose the route selection scheme for the multi-route coding in multihop cellular networks. The proposed scheme is based on the bit error rate of wireless links. We also apply the proposed route selection scheme to a hybrid routing protocol and evaluate its performance.
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC), Athens, Greece
2007幎9æ
In this manuscript, a spatial diversity scheme with multiple transmit and receive antennas together with multiple relay terminals for packet radio is considered. Correctly received signals at some relay terminals are re-transmitted to the receiver with the spatial diversity by STBC cooperative relaying scheme. To achieve high diversity order with the conventional STBC cooperative relaying scheme, relay terminals which re-transmit the signals are required to exchange signaling information with each another. However, the exchanging of the information causes delay of the signal transmission. Thus, in this manuscript, a novel signaling scheme for the STBC cooperative relaying is proposed. The proposed scheme releases relay terminals exchanging the signaling information. The proposed scheme also saves communication resources to provide flexibility for installation of relay terminals.
S. Arai, S. Mase, T. Yamazato, T. Endo, T. Fujii, M. Tanimoto, K. Kidono, Y. Kimura, Y. Ninomiya
IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC), Baltimore, USA
LEDs are expected as lighting sources for next generation, and data transmission system using LEDs attract attention. In this paper, we present hierarchical coding scheme using LED traffic lights and high-speed camera for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) application. Further, if each of LEDs in traffic lights is individually modulated, parallel data transmissions are possible using a camera as a reception device. Such parallel LED-camera channel can be modeled as spatial low-pass filtered channel of which the cut-off frequency varies according to the distance. To overcome, we propose hierarchical coding scheme based on 2D fast Haar wavelet transform. As results, the proposed hierarchical transmission schemes outperform the conventional on-off keying and the reception of high priority data is guaranteed even LED-camera distance is further.
S. Arai, Y. Nishio, T. Yamazato
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), pp.144-147, Vancouver, Canada
2007幎9æ
In this paper, we analyze a chaotic dynamics generating a chaotic sequence with biased values and apply it to noncoherent chaos communications. We examine a behavior of the chaotic dynamics by increasing the slope of the chaotic map and investigate the invariant measure and the correlation function. A high quality performance of noncoherent chaos communications is obtained by controlling the distribution of the chaotic sequence with biased values. Finally we carry out the computer simulation using its sequence and discuss the obtained results and the future problem for chaos communication.
B.Mongol, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), pp.92-95, Vancouver, Canada
2007幎9æ
This paper proposes a low-complexity channel estimation sheme for the pulse-shaping OFDM systems in the highly mobile multipath environment. The estimation scheme is based on the tapped-delay-line model for the channel. The main idea behind our scheme is to approximate the fading process for each tap with finite terms of its Taylor series expansion. The proposed scheme also tracks the channel. We show that the channel can be estimated and tracked with reasonable mismatch error while using considerably short training period.
We research automotive radar networks with multiple radars set in the front of car. Especially, we consider data processing using measured ranges provided by the radars in order to estimate multiple target positions with high accuracy. This paper is composed of three steps. Firstly, we derive a method based on MAP estimation. Secondly, we propose a method which reduces the calculation complexity compared with the above MAP method. Finally, we introduce a method which can detect targets without ghost-targets in case the lacks of measured ranges are happened because of miss-detection. We evaluate the methods with computer simulations.
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This paper compare the throughput performance of a carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA) scheme that uses an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM) physical layer and a CDMA slotted ALOHA scheme based on multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) in inter-vehicle communication (IVC). In particular, we compare the throughputs in a situation where a hidden terminal is no longer negligible. We encounter such a situation in an intersection where two or more cars are crossing by. In a hidden terminal situation, the CSMA scheme may degrade throughput. On the other hand, CDMA slotted ALOHA has a resistance to the hidden terminal situation as it can support simultaneous packets. However, the transmission data rate is much slow because of the spreading. Thus the total throughput may not be as high as the CSMA based OFDM even in a hidden terminal situation. As a result, we show that the CSMA based OFDM system shows better total throughput than CDMA slotted ALOHA in all region. But, only the signal from the nearest car can be received. On the contrary, CDMA slotted ALOHA can be received many packets simultaneously. This is much preferable feature for safety driving.
K. Nakao, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, M. Katayama
Fourth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, pp.89-92, Braunschweig, Germany
We consider a distributed transmission of data packet to a sink where the distance for a sensor node to the sink is much longer than a sensor node can transmit. We give a simple modification in the transmitter, i.e., multiplication of random phase before the transmission. Thanks to a strong error correcting code, it is possible to extend the transmission range as the received amplitude varies symbol by symbol for our scheme while whole data packet may be lost for the conventional scheme.
In sensor networks, because of densely deployment of sensor nodes, sensing area of each sensor node is overlapped with each other and its observed data sequence is correlated. The joint decoding scheme that uses the correlation between the observed data sequences can reduce bit errors in the wireless channel. In this paper, we extend the joint decoding to the case of more than two-hop transmission. For such extension, selection of fusion scheme is very important issue. If the global fusion scheme is employed and the observed data sequence of each sensor node is transmitted on an independent route, route diversity effect could be obtained by using the correlation between observed data sequences. We compare the bit error rate performance of local and global fusion schemes and clarify the route diversity effect.
For safety applications, automotive radar networks show an interesting potential. Apart from long range radars, networked short range radar systems are under development. Additional applications can be accomplished, such includes precrash detection, parking aid and blind spot surveillance. We research the automotive radar networks using short range radars. The network is built with multiple radars. In this paper, we consider data processing using measured ranges provided by the radars in order to estimate multiple target positions with high accuracy. Firstly, we derive a method based on MAP stimation. Secondly, we propose a method which reduces the calculation complexity compared to the above MAP method. Finally, we introduce a method which can detect targets with low ndetected targets. The case often happens when the measured ranges are lost because of miss-detections.We evaluate the performance th computer simulations.
IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol.E89-B, no.12, pp.3250-3256
2006幎12æ
This paper discusses the influence of the nonlinearity of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) on the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receivers. We evaluate signal constellations and bit error rate performances while considering quantization errors and clippings. The optimum range for an ADC input amplitude is found as a result of the trade-off between quantization error and the effects of clipping. In addition, it is shown that the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the signal is not a good measure of the bit error rate (BER) performance, since the largest peaks occur only with very low probabilities. The relationship between the location of a subcarrier and its performance is studied. As a result, it is shown that the influence of the quantization error is identical for all subcarriers, while the effects of clipping depend on the subcarrier frequency. When clipping occurs, the BER performance of a subcarrier near the center frequency is worse than that near the edges.
Pulse-shaping OFDM is well-known that it performs well in a mobile environment comparing with conventional OFDM. However, in highly mobile environment intersymbol and intercarrier interferences (ISI/ICIs) increase and can no longer be neglected. These ISI/ICIs deteriorate the performance of the systems. Proper channel equalization is needed for further improvement of the systems. In this paper, more general case, namely Biorthogonal Frequency Division System based on Offset QAM (BFDM/OQAM) is considered. We propose a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transversal filter to equalize the time-frequency dispersive channel. Tap weights are calculated using the zero-forcing (ZF) algorithm. We also propose maximum-likelihood channel estimator and its low-complexity version. The proposed system can significantly improve the performance of BFDM/OQAM systems in the highly mobile environment.
B. Mongol, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, M. Katayama
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, vol.E89-A, no.11, pp.3114-3122
2006幎11æ
Pulse-shaping OFDM is well-known that it performs well in a mobile environment compared with conventional OFDM. However, in a highly mobile environment intersymbol and intercarrier interferences (ISI/ICIs) increase and can no longer be neglected. These ISI/ICIs deteriorate the performance of the systems. Proper channel equalization is needed for further improvement of the systems. In this paper, a more general case, namely Biorthogonal Frequency Division System based on Offset QAM (BFDM/OQAM) is considered. We propose a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transversal filter to equalize the time-frequency dispersive channel. Tap weights are calculated using the zero-forcing (ZF) algorithm. We also propose maximum-likelihood channel estimator and its low-complexity version. The proposed system can significantly improve the performance of BFDM/OQAM systems in the highly mobile environment.
R. Uchida, H. Okada, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
MObile Radio Interdisciplinary Workshop (MORI Workshop), Daejeon, Korea
2006幎11æ
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International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA), pp.454-459, Seoul, Korea
2006幎10æ
In this manuscript, spatial diversity for in-factory environments is considered. The proposed scheme uses multiple antennas at a transmitter and a receiver, and also multiple relay terminals to provide diversity gain against fading and shadowing. If the separation of antennas at the transmitter or the receiver is not enough, then diversity gain is influenced by correlation at the transmitter or the receiver. This manuscript shows the analytical and numerical results of the effects of transmit and receive correlations on bit error performance of the proposed spatial diversity scheme.
K. Kobayashi, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, M. Katayama
International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA), pp.808-813, Seoul, Korea
2006幎10æ
In this study, we consider joint channel decoding of Turbo code for multiple correlated data that are observed by sensor nodes densely deployed in a sensor field. We focus on the correlation properties of observation data and try to reduce decoding error by an iterative procedure. An approach to use practical channel codes for more than two correlated data is still not presented. A problem in the extension to cases of more than two sensor nodes is how to use the information of correlation obtained from observation data. In this study, we propose an iterative channel decoding scheme that uses them with weighting. We show that when the number of sensor nodes is increased, decoding performance improvement cannot be achieved by simple weighting, and so a more appropriate weight is needed. We find the optimum weight that minimizes the bit error rate from the analytical formula for uncoded BPSK and apply it to the case of Turbo code.
IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC), Helsinki, Finland
2006幎9æ
This paper examines multihop cellular networks. There are some issues in these networks, such as route loss due to topological change and packet errors due to wireless nodes relay. To overcome these issues, we use a multiple route coding scheme in which packets are transmitted on multiple routes from a user node to multiple base stations. This scheme can achieve a diversity gain by combining packets that are transmitted along multiple routes. Some challenges must be met to establish multiple routes for this scheme. In this paper, we propose a routing protocol for multiple route coding. The key idea of this proposed scheme is using a hybrid routing protocol. This can mitigate an increase in control packets and multiple disjoint routes can be constructed. We evaluate the performance of this proposed scheme.
B. Mongol, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, and M. Katayama
International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), pp.159-163, Valencia, Spain
Pulse-shaping OFDM is well-known that it performs well in a mobile environment comparing with conventional OFDM. However, in highly mobile environment intersymbol and intercarrier interferences (ISI/ICIs) increase and can no longer be neglected. These ISI/ICIs deteriorate the performance of the systems. Practically, proper channel equalization and estimation are needed for further improvement of the systems. In this paper, more general case, namely Biorthogonal Frequency Division System based on Offset QAM (BFDM/OQAM) is considered. We first derive analytical equations for the channel statistics. Further, we propose maximum-likelihood channel estimator and its low-complexity versions. The performance analysis shows that the estimators are robust against Doppler spread of the channels.
We research automotive radar networks with multiple radars set in the front of car. Especially, we consider data processing using measured ranges provided by the radars in order to estimate multiple target positions with high accuracy. This paper is composed of three steps. Firstly, we derive a method based on MAP estimation. Secondly, we propose a method which reduces the calculation complexity compared with the above MAP method. Finally, we introduce a method which can detect targets without ghost-targets in case the lacks of measured ranges are happened because of miss-detection. We evaluate the methods with computer simulations.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol.24, no.7, pp.1267-1275
2006幎7æ
This manuscript introduces a mathematically tractable and accurate model of narrowband power-line noise based on experimental measurements. In this paper, the noise is expressed as a Gaussian process whose instantaneous variance is a periodic time function. With this assumption and representation, the cyclostationary features of power-line noise can be described in close form. The periodic function that represents the variance is then approximated with a small number of parameters. The noise waveform generated with this model shows good agreement with that of actually measured noise. Noise waveforms generated by different models are also compared to that of the proposed mode.
For reduction in bit errors on wireless channels, we proposed the multi-route coding scheme on multiple routes for wireless multi-hop networks. In this paper, we introduce ARQ to the multi-route coding. In the multi-route coding, the destination node combines and decodes sub packets which are encoded and divided by the source node. The intermediate node relays a sub packet, that is, only a part of a packet. Therefore, the intermediate node cannot detect packet errors, and only the destination node can do after combining and decoding sub packets. We propose the ARQ scheme between the source node and the destination node. We analyze the proposed ARQ scheme and evaluate the throughput performance.
H. Okada, N. Nakagawa, T. Wada, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama
IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol.E89-B, no.5, pp.1620-1626
2006幎5æ
Wireless multi-hop networks have drawn much attention for the future generation mobile communication systems. These networks can establish multiple routes from a source node to a destination node because of flexible construction of network topology. The transmission by multiple routes has enough capability to achieve reliable communication because we can expect to obtain diversity gain by multiple routes. In this paper, we propose the multi-route coding scheme. At first, we discuss a channel model in multi-hop networks employing regenerative relay, which we named the virtual channel model. By using the virtual channel model, a packet is encoded on multiple routes as follows; a bit sequence of a packet is encoded and divided into subpackets, and each subpacket is transmitted on each route. We evaluate its packet error rate performance, and clarify effectiveness of the proposed scheme. In general, we should face degradation of a route condition such as the case when a subpacket does not reach a destination node. Hence, we have to consider the influence of subpacket loss. We also investigate it, and show tolerance of the proposed scheme over that.
IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC), pp.92-97, Orlando, Florida, USA
2006幎3æ
This manuscript discusses the relationships of noise waveforms measured at different outlets in a three-wire single-phase (one neutral and two live conductors) power-line network. As a result of experimental measurements, it is confirmed that instantaneous noise voltages at two different outlets have high correlations if the outlets are connected to the same live conductor in a distribution board, while the outlets for the different live conductors provide noise waveforms with low correlations. It is also shown that the instantaneous noise powers and cyclic averaged noise powers as time functions have large correlations even at a pair of outlets connected to the different live conductors. The correlation coefficients for instantaneous voltages and powers are also calculated as the frequency functions.
B. Mongol, T. Yamazato, H. Okada, and M. Katayama
Technical Report of IEICE, vol.WBS2005-112, pp.19-24, Nagoya, Japan
2006幎3æ
Biorthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing based on Offset QAM (BFDM/OQAM) system is one of the pulse-shaping versions of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. It allows optimal Gaussian transmitting pulse at critical sampling i.e., maximum spectral efficiency. In this paper we propose a robust receiver for BFDM/OQAM systems in highly mobi