Mirror Pulse Modulation for Image Sensor-based Optical Wireless Communication

This paper describes Mirror Pulse Modulation (MPM), which is an image sensor-based optical wireless communication protocol using line scan sampling. MPM is designed to be featured on current and future smartphones, and has the advantages of a wide communication range and the ability to transmit small pieces of information at high speed. MPM has been published as IEEE standard 802.15.7-2018, but this is the first paper to describe it in detail. We evaluate here the performance of MPM with parameter settings individually optimized for several scenarios. Our results show a 4.4-fold increase in communication range and a 2.3 fold increase in dimming rate compared to International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard 62943:2017, which is adopted in several commercial services.