Browsing by Author "Uysal, Murat"

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Citation Count: 1
A 130 nm CMOS Receiver for Visible Light Communication
(IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2022) Baykaş, Tunçer; Yagan, Muhammed Yaser; Uysal, Murat; Pusane, Ali Emre; Baykas, Tuncer; Dundar, Gunhan; Yalcinkaya, Arda Deniz
Visible light communication (VLC) is an emerging technology that has been gaining attention over the last few years. Transmission of data at higher rates in a VLC system is mainly limited by the modulation bandwidth of the employed LED. To alleviate this limitation, equalization is frequently employed. This is usually achieved by either using discrete circuit elements or in digital form. In this paper, we present a power-efficient VLC receiver as a system-on-chip, implemented in 130 nm CMOS technology. The proposed receiver supports LEDs with different bandwidths thanks to the switchable equalizer. We tested the proposed receiver using phosphorescent white LEDs with different bandwidths on an experimental VLC link. For each tested LED, around 20 fold improvement in data rate was achieved compared to the original bandwidth of the LED. For the LED with a modulation bandwidth of 1.6 MHz, data rates of 32 Mbps and 50 Mbps at a BER of 10(-2) were obtained at a distance of 2 meters without and with a blue filter, respectively.
Citation Count: 0
Analysis and Optimization of the Network Throughput in IEEE 802.15.13 based Visible Light Communication Networks
(IEEE, 2021) Baykaş, Tunçer; Elamassie, Mohammed; Baykas, Tuncer; Uysal, Murat
In line with the growing interest on visible light communication (VLC), IEEE has initiated standardization efforts on this emerging technology. In this work, we consider IEEE 802.15.13 Optical Wireless Personal Area Networks (OWPAN) standard draft. The underlying MAC protocol uses contention free and contention access periods. For a standard-compliant VLC network, we analyze the network load and propose an algorithm to improve the network throughput by proper selection of period lengths. Our suggested algorithm improves the network performance by at least 5% in the case of variable network traffic up to 15 active users.
Citation Count: 1
Channel estimation in underwater cooperative OFDM system with amplify-and-forward relaying
(IEEE, 2012) Şenol, Habib; Panayırcı, Erdal; Erdoğan, Mustafa; Uysal, Murat
This paper is concerned with a challenging problem of channel estimation for amplify-and-forward cooperative relay based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems in the presence of sparse underwater acoustic channels and of the correlative non-Gaussian noise. We exploit the sparse structure of the channel impulse response to improve the performance of the channel estimation algorithm due to the reduced number of taps to be estimated. The resulting novel algorithm initially estimates the overall sparse channel taps from the source to the destination as well as their locations using the matching pursuit (MP) approach. The correlated non-Gaussian effective noise is modeled as a Gaussian mixture. Based on the Gaussian mixture model an efficient and low complexity algorithm is developed based on the combinations of the MP and the space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization (SAGE) technique to improve the estimates of the channel taps and their location as well as the noise distribution parameters in an iterative way. The proposed SAGE algorithm is designed in such a way that by choosing the admissible hidden data properly on which the SAGE algorithm relies a subset of parameters is updated for analytical tractability and the remaining parameters for faster convergence Computer simulations show that underwater acoustic (UWA) channel is estimated very effectively and the proposed algorithm has excellent symbol error rate and channel estimation performance.
Citation Count: 7
Channel Modeling for Visible Light Communications
(Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2016) Miramirkhani, Farshad; Uysal, Murat; Panayırcı, Erdal
In this chapter, we present a novel and realistic channel modeling approach for visible light communications that overcomes the limitations of previous works. In our work, we consider wavelength dependency, effect of realistic light sources as well as different types of reflections such as specular and mixed cases of diffuse and specular. We use nonsequential ray tracing algorithms to calculate the detected power and path lengths from source to detector for each ray. These are then processed to yield the channel impulse responses for various indoor environments. We further present a channel characterization study where channel parameters such as channel DC gain, root mean square delay spread, coherence bandwidth, mean excess delay are calculated for different environments.
Citation Count: 0
Comparative Performance Evaluation of VLC, LTE and WLAN Technologies in Indoor Environments
(IEEE, 2021) Baykaş, Tunçer; Karbalayghareh, Mehdi; Miramirkhani, Farshad; Uysal, Murat; Baykas, Tuncer
Recent years have seen an exponential rise in the demand for indoor wireless connections that have driven future generation networks to aim for higher data rates with extended coverage and affordable rates. The two most prominent technologies for providing indoor wireless connections, WLAN and LTE, have their limitations and they can not coexist in a single band to form heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Visible light communication (VLC) has seen rapid growth in recent years as it has the capability to seamlessly merge with the existing technologies and provide wireless connections with high data rates. VLC based hybrid indoor network effectively combines the preferences of an end-user with the practicality of implementation. In this work, we investigate specific VLC/WLAN and VLC/LTE hybrid scenarios to perform a detailed analysis on the effect of user mobility on the performance of the system and how the performance of the network (in terms of throughput) can be maximized The study aims to show how different technologies complement each other in the best and even the worst-case scenarios.
Citation Count: 2
Generalized LED Index Modulation Optical OFDM for MIMO Visible Light Communications Systems
(IEEE, 2016) Basar, Ertuğrul; Panayırcı, Erdal; Uysal, Murat; Haas, Harald
In this paper we propose a generalized light emitting diode (LED) index modulation scheme for multiple input multiple output-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) visible light communications (VLC) systems. The proposed scheme generalizes the LED index modulation concept by using the spatial multiplexing principle to transmit complex OFDM signals through VLC channels by separating these signals into their real-imaginary and positive-negative parts. The maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator of the proposed scheme which relies on quadratic programing (QP) problem is presented for flat VLC channels. It is shown via computer simulations that the proposed scheme achieves considerably better error performance than the existing VLC-MIMO-OFDM systems due to its power efficiency and improved transceiver structure.
Citation Count: 112
IEEE 802.15.7r1 Reference Channel Models for Visible Light Communications
(IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2017) Baykaş, Tunçer; Narmanlıoğlu, Ömer; Baykas, Tuncer; Uysal, Murat; Panayırcı, Erdal
The IEEE has established the standardization group 802.15.7r1 "Short Range Optical Wireless Communications", which is currently in the process of developing a standard for visible light communication (VLC). As with any other communication system, realistic channel models are of critical importance for VLC system design, performance evaluation, and testing. This article presents the reference channel models that were endorsed by the IEEE 802.15.7r1 Task Group for evaluation of VLC system proposals. These were developed for typical indoor environments, including home, office, and manufacturing cells. While highlighting the channel models, we further discuss physical layer techniques potentially considered for IEEE 802.15.7r1.
Citation Count: 13
Information Theoretical Performance Analysis and Optimisation of Cooperative Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems
(Inst Engineering Technology-IET, 2016) Nouri, Hatef; Uysal, Murat; Panayırcı, Erdal
In this study the authors investigate the information theoretical limits on the performance of single-carrier cooperative underwater acoustic communication systems in the presence of intersymbol interference. The authors assume decode-and-forward relaying and consider orthogonal half-duplex cooperation. Under the assumptions of sparse and frequency-selective Rician fading channel and non-white correlated Gaussian ambient noise the authors derive expressions for bounds on the individual and achievable rates for both cases where channel state information is available at the transmitter or not. Using these expressions the authors optimise input signalling and relay location to maximise average achievable rates.
Citation Count: 5
Information theoretical performance limits of single-carrier underwater acoustic systems
(Inst Engineering Technology-IET, 2014) Şenol, Habib; Uysal, Murat; Panayırcı, Erdal; Şenol, Habib
In this study the authors investigate the information theoretical limits on the performance of point-to-point single-carrier acoustic systems over frequency-selective underwater channels with intersymbol interference. Under the assumptions of sparse and frequency-selective Rician fading channel and non-white correlated Gaussian ambient noise the authors derive an expression for channel capacity and demonstrate the dependency on channel parameters such as the number location and power delay profile of significant taps as well as environmental parameters such as distance temperature salinity pressure and depth. Then the authors use this expression to determine the optimal carrier frequency input signalling and bandwidth for capacity maximisation.
Citation Count: 81
A Mobile Channel Model for VLC and Application to Adaptive System Design
(IEEE-INST Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2017) Miramirkhani, Farshad; Narmanlıoğlu, Ömer; Uysal, Murat; Panayırcı, Erdal
In this letter we propose a realistic channel model for visible light communication (VLC) assuming a mobile user. Based on non-sequential ray tracing we first obtain channel impulse responses for each point over the user movement trajectories and then express path loss and delay spread as a function of distance through curve fitting. Our results demonstrate large variations in received power. In system design this necessitates the use of adaptive schemes where transmission parameters can be selected according to channel conditions. To demonstrate the benefits of link adaptation over a mobile VLC channel we propose an adaptive system with luminary selection and demonstrate improvements in spectral efficiency over non-adaptive systems.
Citation Count: 2
Modeling of Visible Light Channels and Performance Analysis of ACO-OFDM
(IEEE, 2015) Şenol, Habib; Alsan, Hüseyin Fuat; Miramirkhani, Farshad; Panayırcı, Erdal; Şenol, Habib; Uysal, Murat
Spectrum scarcity of traditional radio communication has led communication engineers to find new alternatives. Indoor visible light communication is one alternative to solve this problem since its spectrum is not regulated and it has much wider bandwidth then traditional communication systems. This increased the research done in the field of visible light communications. However a proper indoor channel model is lacking and all previous studies assumes that only additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is present. Lack of proper channel model has motivated us to model a realistic indoor visible light channel. After modeling the indoor visible light channel the performance of an asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) system which is suitable for optical communications is investigated and compared to that of the AWGN optical channels.
Citation Count: 0
MP-SAGE Based Channel Estimation for Underwater Cooperative OFDM Systems
(IEEE, 2013) Şenol, Habib; Şenol, Habib; Panayırcı, Erdal; Uysal, Murat
In this paper an efficient channel estimation algorithm is proposed for amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative relay based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system in the presence of sparse underwater acoustic channels and of the correlative non-Gaussian noise The algorithm is based on the combinations of the matching pursuit (MP) and the space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization (SAGE) technique to improve the estimates of the channel taps and their location as well as the Gaussian mixture noise distribution parameters in an iterative way Computer simulations show that underwater acoustic channel is estimated very effectively and the proposed algorithm has excellent symbol error rate (SER) and channel estimation performance as compared to the existing ones
Citation Count: 11
Novel Channel Models For Visible Light Communications
(Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, 2015) Miramirkhani, Farshad; Uysal, Murat; Panayırcı, Erdal
In this paper we investigate channel modeling for visible light communications (VLC) using non-sequential ray tracing simulation tools. We create three dimensional realistic simulation environments to depict indoor scenarios specifying the geometry of the environment the objects inside the reflection characteristics of the surface materials as well as the characteristics of the transmitter and receivers i.e. LED sources and photodioes. Through ray tracing simulations we compute the received optical power and the delay of direct/indirect rays which are then used to obtain the channel impulse response (CIR). Following this methodology we present CIRs for a number of indoor environments including empty/furnished rectangular rooms with different sizes and wall/object materials (e.g. plaster gloss paint wood aluminum metal glass) assuming deployment of both single and multiple LED transmitters. We further quantify multipath channel parameters such as delay spread and channel DC gain for each configuration and provide insights into the effects of indoor environment parameters (e.g. size wall/object materials etc.) transmitter/receiver specifications (e.g. single vs. multiple transmitters location rotation etc.) on the channel.
Citation Count: 92
Optical MIMO-OFDM With Generalized LED Index Modulation
(IEEE-INST Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2017) Yeşilkaya, Anıl; Basar, Ertugrul; Miramirkhani, Farshad; Panayırcı, Erdal; Uysal, Murat; Haas, Harald
Visible light communications (VLC) is a promising and uncharted new technology for the next generation of wireless communication systems. This paper proposes a novel generalized light emitting diode (LED) index modulation method for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based VLC systems. The proposed scheme avoids the typical spectrum efficiency losses incurred by time- and frequency-domain shaping in OFDM signals. This is achieved by exploiting spatial multiplexing along with LED index modulation. Accordingly real and imaginary components of the complex time-domain OFDM signals are separated first then resulting bipolar signals are transmitted over a VLC channel by encoding sign information in LED indexes. As a benchmark we demonstrate the performance analysis of our proposed system for both analytical and physical channel models. Furthermore two novel receiver designs are proposed. Each one is suitable for frequency-flat or selective channel scenarios. It has been shown via extensive computer simulations that the proposed scheme achieves considerably better bit error ratio versus signal-to-noise-ratio performance than the existing VLC-MIMO-OFDM systems that use the same number of transmit and receive units [LEDs and photo diodes (PDs)]. Compared with the single-input single-output (SISO) DC biased optical (DCO)-OFDM system both spectral efficiency and DC bias can be doubled and removed respectively simply by exploiting a MIMO configuration.
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Performance of MIMO Enhanced Unipolar OFDM With Realistic Indoor Visible Light Channel Models
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016) Yeşilkaya, Anıl; Miramirkhani, Farshad; Basar, Ertugrul; Panayırcı, Erdal; Uysal, Murat
Visible light communication (VLC) involves the dual use of illumination infrastructure for high speed wireless access. Designing such optical based communication systems realistic indoor optical channel modeling becomes an important issue to be handled. In this paper first we obtain new realistic indoor VL channel characterizations and models in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission scenario using non-sequential ray tracing approach for the channel impulse responses (CIRs). Practical issues such as number of light emitting diode (LED) chips per luminary spacing between LED chips objects inside the room and cabling topology are also investigated. On the other hand since indoor optical channels exhibit frequency selectivity multi-carrier communication systems particularly orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is used to handle the resulting inter-symbol interference in VLC systems. Hence we propose a new MIMO-OFDM based VLC system called MIMO enhanced unipolar OFDM (MIMO-eU-OFDM) by combining MIMO transmission techniques with the recently proposed eU-OFDM scheme. The bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed system is investigated in the presence of the 2×2 and 4×4 realistic MIMO VLC channels and its BER performance is compared with the reference optical MIMO-OFDM systems. © 2016 IEEE.
Citation Count: 32
Sparse Channel Estimation and Equalization for OFDM-Based Underwater Cooperative Systemsw with Amplify-and-Forward Relaying
(IEEE-INST Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2016) Şenol, Habib; Şenol, Habib; Uysal, Murat; Poor, H. Vincent
This paper is concerned with a challenging problem of channel estimation and equalization for amplify-and-forward cooperative relay based orthogonal frequency division multi-plexing (OFDM) systems in sparse underwater acoustic (UWA) channels. The sparseness of the channel impulse response and prior information for the non-Gaussian channel gains modeled by an exact continuous Gaussian mixture (CGM) are exploited to improve the performance of the channel estimation algorithm. The resulting novel algorithm initially estimates the overall sparse complex-valued channel taps from the source to the destination as well as their locations using the matching pursuit (MP) approach. The effective time-domain non-Gaussian noise is approximated well as a Gaussian noise in the frequency-domain where the estimation takes place. An efficient and low complexity algorithm is developed based on a combination of the MP and the maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) based space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization technique to improve the estimates of the channel taps and their locations in an iterative manner. Computer simulations show that the UWA channel is estimated very effectively and the proposed algorithm exhibits excellent symbol error rate and channel estimation performance.
Citation Count: 43
Sparse Channel Estimation for OFDM-Based Underwater Acoustic Systems in Rician Fading With a New OMP-MAP Algorithm
(IEEE, 2019) Panayırcı, Erdal; Altabbaa, Mhd Tahssin; Uysal, Murat; Poor, H. Vincent
In this paper a new channel estimation algorithm is proposed that exploits channel sparsity in the time domain for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based underwater acoustical (UWA) communications systems in the presence of Rician fading. A path-based channel model is used in which the channel is described by a limited number of paths each characterized by a delay Doppler scale and attenuation factor. The resulting algorithm initially estimates the overall sparse channel tap delays and Doppler shifts using a compressed sensing approach in the form of the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm. Then a computationally efficient and novel channel estimation algorithm is developed by combining the OMP and maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) techniques for estimating the sparse complex channel path gains whose prior densities have complex Gaussian distributions with unknown mean and variance vectors where a computationally efficient maximum likelihood algorithm is proposed for their estimation. Monte Carlo simulation results show that the mean square error and symbol error rate performances of the OMP-MAP algorithm uniformly outperforms the conventional OMP-based channel estimation algorithm in case of uncoded OFDM-based UWA communications systems.
Citation Count: 1
Sparse channel estimation for OFDM-based underwater cooperative systems with amplify-and-forward relaying
(IEEE Computer Society, 2014) Şenol, Habib; Panayırcı, Erdal; Uysal, Murat
This paper is concerned with a challenging problem of channel estimation for amplify-and-forward cooperative relay based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems in the presence of sparse underwater acoustic channels and of the correlative non-Gaussian noise. We exploit the sparse structure of the channel impulse response to improve the performance of the channel estimation algorithm due to the reduced number of taps to be estimated. The resulting novel algorithm initially estimates the overall sparse channel taps from the source to the destination as well as their locations using the matching pursuit (MP) approach. The correlated non-Gaussian effective noise is modeled as a Gaussian mixture. Based on the Gaussian mixture model an efficient and low complexity algorithm is developed based on the combinations of the MP and the space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization (SAGE) technique to improve the estimates of the channel taps and their location as well as the noise distribution parameters in an iterative way. The proposed SAGE algorithm is designed in such a way that by choosing the admissible hidden data properly on which the SAGE algorithm relies a subset of parameters is updated for analytical tractability and the remaining parameters for faster convergence Computer simulations show that underwater acoustic (UWA) channel is estimated very effectively and the proposed algorithm has excellent symbol error rate and channel estimation performance. © 2014 IEEE.
Citation Count: 0
Sparse underwater acoustic channel estimation in colored Gaussian noise [Renkli? Gauss gürültülü seyrek sualtı akusti?k kanalların kestirimi]
(IEEE, 2012) Şenol, Habib; Şenol, Habib; Panayırcı, Erdal; Uysal, Murat
Cooperative underwater acoustic communication systems come into prominence in recent years. Since underwater channels are sparse and additive noise entering the system is colored Gaussian noise. Therefore it is very difficult to estimate the underwater channels and theoretically makes it interesting. In this study the transmission from source to the target recipient is realized by means of a relay system. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based channel estimation problem is solved by using the matching pursuit (MP) algorithm and we obtained excellent error performance.
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Yüksek Hizli Görünür Işik İletişimi İçin Cmos Tabanli Tümleşik Alici Geliştirilmesi
(2021) Baykaş, Tunçer; Pusane, Ali Emre; Dündar, Günhan; Yağan, Muhammet Yaser; Kısacık, Rifat; Uysal, Murat; Yalçınkaya, Arda Deniz
Bu projede tümleşik eşlenik MOSFET aygıtları ve CMOS teknolojisi ile uyumlu kırmık-üstü fotodiyotlar kullanılarak, tek-kırmık görünür ışık haberleşme (Visible Light Communication-VLC) alıcısı geliştirilmiştir. Söz konusu alıcı türünün ilk örneklerinden birisidir. Devrenin isterleri VLC kanalının bant genişliğini ve veri hızını en yüksek degree artıracak, bit-hata oranını en düşük seviyede tutacak şekilde belirlenmiştir. Kuramsal olarak ortaya çıkarılan VLC kanal modeli üzerinden, farklı ışık kaynakları (farklı bant genişliklerine sahip LED aygıtları) ile uyumlu bir alıcı tümdevre tasarlanmış, ürettirilmiş ve test edilmiştir.