Abstract
The integration of power line communication (PLC)
and visible light communication (VLC) is increasingly receiving
a lot of research interest with the advent of (IEEE 1901, ITUT
G.9960/61) and IEEE 802.15.7 standards for PLC and VLC
respectively. In particular, there is an underlying gain that could
be achieved by leveraging the existing ubiquitous power line
network infrastructure to render connectivity, while we also
exploit the illumination system of power-saving Light Emitting
Diodes (LEDs) for wireless data communication. The ubiquitous
nature of these two systems makes us belief that VLC can offer a
good complementary wireless data transmission technology to the
existing In-House PLC in a similar manner broad-band Ethernet
connections enjoys the support of Wi-Fi. This paper thus reports
an implementation of a low complexity FSK-OOK In-House PLC
and VLC Integration, as well as it’s Second-Order Semi-Markov
Model. The resulting statistical models facilitates the design and
evaluation of forward error correcting codes to mitigate burst
error occurrences, as well as optimizing the performance of the
overall system.