Abstract (il faudrait vrifier sil y a un nombre de mots ne pas dpasser)

This paper deals with the study of indoor off-body uplinks based on non-directed line
of sight optical wireless communication system used for mobile monitoring purpose.
Considering low data rates, we analyze the optical gain statistics for different scenarios where
multiple receivers are located on the environment ceiling using selection combining. The
emitter is included in a sensor based device worn by a person with random positions inside
the room. We firstly study the impact of receiver position and orientation for cases
corresponding to implementations for lighting or visible light communication downlinks and
determine spatial and angular diversity configurations providing optimal coverage. Then, by
analyzing the impact of half-power angle of optical source along with the location of the
emitter on the body, we outline that there exists an optimal value of source directivity
especially for emitter positions near the floor. These theoretical results are validated by
comparison with experimental measurements using a custom-made wearable communicating
device.

Conclusion

In this paper, we have investigated indoor non-directed LOS uplinks between a mobile
infrared emitter worn by a person and multiple receivers located at room ceiling. Considering
sensor based system as for low-rate monitoring application, analyse focused on the optical DC
gain statistics.
In a first part, our study examined the impact of spatial and angular diversity techniques for
receiver design. We have studied two configurations with multiple receivers which can
correspond to lighting devices possibly used also for VLC downlinks. The optimal receiver
orientations have been determined for each case.
Considering the case with only spatial diversity, i.e. when all the receivers are perpendicular
to the ceiling, we have then analysed the impact of source directivity along with the emitter
position over the body defined as a height from the floor. We have shown that DC gain
statistic does not much depend on emitter position when using a very directive source. But
this does not correspond to the best performance which can be highly improved if the source
half-power angle increases. We have outlined that there exists an optimal value of source
directivity corresponding to half-power angle around 30, especially for emitter positions near
the floor.
Finally, by using custom-made device with off-the-shell optical transceivers, the
comparison of theoretical and experimental results has permit validating the conclusions
according source directivity and emitter position impact.