Home Networking System Employing Power Line and LED Lighting

If LED lighting is to be used in home networking, a home gateway and power line communication are needed in delivering data. In addition, an appropriate multiple access scheme reflecting LED's property is required. In this paper, a home networking system that can serve wide in-building area by integrating PLC and VLC, is proposed and implemented, then its performance is measured. A binary CDMA is used in the multiple access since this scheme is good for nonlinear device like LED, while infrared is used in the upstream transmission.