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Item Open Access Direct and two-step positioning in visible light systems(IEEE, 2018) Keskin, Musa Furkan; Gezici, Sinan; Arıkan, OrhanVisible light positioning (VLP) systems based on light emitting diodes can facilitate high accuracy localization services for indoor scenarios. In this paper, direct and two-step positioning approaches are investigated for both synchronous and asynchronous VLP systems. First, the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) and the direct positioning-based maximum likelihood estimator are derived for 3-D localization of a visible light communication receiver in a synchronous scenario by utilizing information from both time delay parameters and channel attenuation factors. Then, a two-step position estimator is designed for synchronous VLP systems by exploiting the asymptotic properties of time-of-arrival and received signal strength estimates. The proposed two-step estimator is shown to be asymptotically optimal, i.e., converges to the direct estimator at high signal-to-noise ratios. In addition, the CRLB and the direct and two-step estimators are obtained for positioning in asynchronous VLP systems. It is proved that the two-step position estimation is optimal in asynchronous VLP systems for practical pulse shapes. Various numerical examples are provided to illustrate the improved performance of the proposed estimators with respect to the current state-of-the-art and to investigate their robustness against model uncertainties in VLP systems.Item Open Access Direct positioning in synchronous and asynchronous visible light systems(IEEE, 2018) Keskin, Musa Furkan; Gezici, Sinan; Arıkan, OrhanIn this paper, direct positioning approaches are investigated for both synchronous and asynchronous visible light systems. First, the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) and the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) are derived for the synchronous scenario by considering the information from both channel attenuation factors and time delay parameters. Then, asynchronous visible light positioning (VLP) systems are investigated and the corresponding CRLBs and MLEs are obtained based on received signal strength (RSS) information. It is shown that the direct and two-step position estimators are equivalent in the asynchronous scenario under mild conditions. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the theoretical results.Item Open Access Localization via visible light systems(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018) Keskin, M. F.; Sezer, A. D.; Gezici, SinanVisible light communication (VLC) is an emerging paradigm that enables multiple functionalities to be accomplished concurrently, including illumination, high-speed data communications, and localization. Based on the VLC technology, visible light positioning (VLP) systems aim to estimate locations of VLC receivers by utilizing light-emitting diode (LED) transmitters at known locations. VLP presents a viable alternative to radio frequency (RF)-based positioning systems by providing inexpensive and accurate localization services. In this paper, we consider the problem of localization in visible light systems and provide an extensive survey of various location estimation techniques, accompanied by discussions of their relative merits and demerits within the context of accuracy and computational complexity. In addition, we investigate a cooperative VLP system architecture in which VLC receiver units are able to communicate with each other for the purpose of cooperation, and present a low-complexity, iterative localization algorithm to demonstrate the benefits of cooperation in VLP systems. Finally, we investigate optimal strategies for power allocation among LED transmitters to maximize the localization accuracy subject to power and illumination constraints.