MobiSteer: using steerable beam directional antenna for vehicular network access
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Scalable routing in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
The networking shape of vehicular mobility
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on wireless access in vehicular environments
Performance modeling of message dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks
ISWPC'10 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Wireless pervasive computing
Challenge: mobile optical networks through visual MIMO
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
PixNet: interference-free wireless links using LCD-camera pairs
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Fundamental analysis for visible-light communication system using LED lights
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Visible light communications for scooter safety
Proceeding of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
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Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a fast-growing technology to provide data communication using low-cost and omni-present LEDs and photodiodes. In this paper, we examine the key proper-ties in enabling vehicular VLC (V2LC) networks as follows. We first develop a custom V2LC research platform on which we expe-rimentally evaluate the feasibility of a V2LC system under working conditions in relation to link resilience to visible light noise and interference. Our experiments show that a receiver's narrow field-of-view angle makes V2LC resilient to visible light noise from sunlight and legacy lighting sources as well as to interference from active VLC transmitters. Then, by leveraging our experimental characterization as the basis of modifications to our simulator, we examine V2LC's performance in providing network services for vehicular applications. Our key findings include: (i) in dense vehicular traffic conditions (e.g., urban highway during peak hours), V2LC takes advantage of multiple available paths to reach vehicles and overcomes the effects of packet collisions; (ii) in the presence of a visible light blockage in traffic, V2LC can still have a significant number of successful transmissions by opportunistically using dynamic inter-vehicle gaps.