Abstract
In this paper, we provide a solution based on spatial frequency ${f_{\textit{sf}}}$ to study the angular behavior of a flicker-free, short-range indoor multiple–input multiple–output (MIMO) optical camera communications (OCC) link. We focus on the experimental investigation of OCC’s performance for the transmitters (Txs) [i.e., light-emitting diode (LED) based arrays] located at the same and different distances from the receiver (Rx) with the off-axis rotation angle $\theta$. We have used two ${8} \times {8}$ distributed LED arrays and a commercial low-cost complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) Raspberry Pi camera with the rolling-shutter capturing mode as the Tx and Rx, respectively. The image and the respective communications link quality metrics are measured in terms of the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and the rate of successfully received bits with respect to ${f_{\textit{sf}}}$ for different camera shutter speeds (SS). A CMOS image sensor noise characterization is carried in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and PSNR. The proposed study provides a 100% success rate in data reception at the optimum $\theta$ of 50° at lower captured values of ${f_{\textit{sf}}}$, which is projected onto the image sensor in the form of pixels. Moreover, the effect of channel saturation over ${f_{\textit{sf}}}$ is studied with respect to $\theta$ and SS and we show that, for $\theta$ exceeding the optimum value along transmission range, the ${f_{\textit{sf}}}$ area of the Txs reduces to less than ${\sim}{50}\%$ of the captured Tx units at $\theta$ of 0°, where no data can be fully recovered.
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