TY - GEN N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. EP - 6 AV - public Y1 - 2018/01/01/ TI - Undersampled Pulse Width Modulation for Optical Camera Communications KW - Optical camera communications KW - undersampled pulse width modulation KW - visible light communications A1 - Luo, P A1 - Jiang, T A1 - Haigh, PA A1 - Ghassemlooya, Z A1 - Zvanovec, S T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops CY - Kansas City, MO, USA SN - 2164-7038 PB - IEEE UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2018.8403732 ID - discovery10059302 N2 - An undersampled pulse width modulation (UPWM) scheme is proposed to enable users to establish a non- flickering optical camera communications (OCC) link. With UPWM, only a digital light emitting diode (LED) driver is needed to send signals using a higher order modulation. Similar to other undersample-based modulation schemes for OCC, a dedicated preamble is required to assist the receiver to indicate the phase error introduced during the undersampling process, and to compensate for nonlinear distortion caused by the in-built gamma correction function of the camera. To test the performance of the UPWM- based OCC system, an experimental test-bed is developed. The experimental results show that the proposed system is able to achieve a data rate of 150 bps (spectrum efficiency of 5 bits/symbol) at a bit error rate of 6.76×10^-4, which is well below the forward error correction limit of 3.8×10^-3, over a link span of 1 m using a Huawei Nexus 6P smartphone with a frame rate of 30 fps. ER -