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The societal reliance upon wireless systems continues to rise due to mobile data interchange. A closer look at the current allocation of 38 GHz 5G Cellular is desperately pointing to, and suggesting the crowding of the frequency spectrum. Therefore this study explores visible light communication as one of the emerging technologies to help meet up with these challenges. The Visible Light Communication (VLC) refers to the communication technology which utilizes the visible light source as a signal transmitter, the air as a transmission medium, and the appropriate photodiode as a signal receiving component. This study appraises the extant literature on Solid State Lighting (SSL), with emphasis on Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The study highlights the weaknesses of the existing system, the advantages and the significance of the new system using prototype methodology. The study focused on the design and implementation of Visible Light Communication (VLC) circuit for wireless data transmission by designing an analog circuit to integrate with a computer or mobile phone, and then sending some form of data using visible light LEDs from a transmitter, and decoding it with a receiver. The design adopted Beagle-Bone-Black (BBB) as development platform and the circuit was tested with Proteus 8 Professional and data sent reliably and accurately over a short distance at a fair speed which ensures that the initial goals for the functionality of this new system which includes being able to send audio, text or pictures over a distance of approximately 10 meter at a data rate of at least 10 Mbps was achieved. The study shows that visible light communication has the potential to provide high speed data communication with improved energy efficiency and communication security/privacy due to its unique characteristics and advantages. Also, Visible Light Communication can complement the RF-based mobile communication systems in designing high-capacity mobile data networks and can be incorporated in the next generation 5G network. The study therefore recommends error control mechanism and Dimming Support to be integrated in the subsequent studies. |
About Author/Editors
Dr. Anusiuba Overcomer Ifeanyi Alex
Revd. Canon Overcomer Anusiuba Ph.D. was born into the Royal family of Ezeigbo Anumanu Kingdom of Anusiuba Okeke-Dunumba Ezeifekaibeya clan of Ogbe Umuezopi-Oraifite in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State Nigeria. He is the son of Chief and Lolo Anusiuba Okwumuo. He is a Priest and a Clergyman of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Diocese of Nnewi and a Canon of the Cathedral Church of St Mary’s Uruagu Nnewi.
He is a New Testament Biblical scholar of SOON Bible Institute England and a first-class graduate of Trinity Theological College Umuahia, Abia State. Revd. Canon Dr. Overcomer is a Consultant System Analyst, a graduate of Computer Science from the prestigious Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, where he obtained his higher degree Masters in Computer Science, Masters in Educational Administration Planning and Management and Masters in Science Education (Computer Science Option).
He has his doctorate degree in Data Communication and Network, his research interest is in Visible Light Communication. He is a lecturer at the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Physical Science Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka. He is the founder of Paragon Youth International, a Non-Governmental Organization for Youth, less privileged and widow’s empowerment.
Dr. Ibrahim M. M. El EMary
Ibrahim M. M. El EMary received the Dr. Eng. Degree in 1998 from the Electronic and Communication Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain shams University, Egypt. From 1998 to 2002, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer sciences in different faculties and institutes in Egypt. From 2002 to 2010, he worked as visiting professor of computer science and engineering at two universities in Jordan. Currently, he is a visiting Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His research interests cover various analytic and discrete event simulation techniques, performance evaluation of communication networks, application of intelligent techniques in managing computer communication networks, and performing a comparative study between various policies and strategies of routing, congestion control, and subnetting of computer communication networks. He published more than 200 articles in various refereed international journals and conferences “84 of these publications having high citations on the Scopus index” covering: Computer Networks, Artificial Intelligent, Expert Systems, Software Agents, Information Retrieval, E-learning, Case-Based Reasoning, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition and Robotic engineering. Also, at the current time, he is too interested in making a lot of scientific research in wireless sensor networks to view the point of enhancing its algorithms of congestion control and routing protocols. He extends his research interest to cover Big Data, IoT, and Edge Computing as well as Quantum & Fast Computing, BI, and KM in the decision-making process. Finally, he publishes five book chapters in two international books (Published by IGI publisher) as well as co-editor of two books edited by two international publishers (Springer Verlag and LAP Lambert). Also, he published four books with CRC Press Taylor & Francis as well as one book with John Wiley. One of his books with CRC Press was selected as the book of the year in 2013 by the Digital ACM. He gets the prize of Who’s Who for seven successive years from the year 2013 to 2020.
Dr. Eissa Mohammed Ali Qhal
Essa Mohamed Ali Gohal received a Ph.D. in Knowledge Management entitled: “The knowledge gate model to support communities of practice for future leaders at Jazan University: An empirical study from King Abdulaziz University, 2019 as well as a Master degree in Information Systems Development entitled: “Development of electronic portals for academic libraries) from Edinburgh Napier University in the United Kingdom”, 2011. Now he works as Assistant Professor at Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia. In addition, he act as Dean of Library Affairs at Jazan University from 2018 until now. His research interests cover: Knowledge Management and Libraries affairs – Development of academic libraries portals- Management of Learning sources – performing a lot of research works in the field of libraries & information sciences. He published more than 18 articles in various refereed international journals and conferences. Finally, at the current time, he is extending his research interest to cover Big Data, IoT, and Edge Computing as well as Quantum & Fast Computing, BI, and KM in the decision-making process. |
