We consider a distributed transmission of data packet to a sink where the distance of a sensor node to a sink is much longer than the maximum communication range of each sensor node. We give a simple modification to the transmitter, i.e., multiplication of random phase before the transmission. Thanks to Turbo Code, it is possible to extend the transmission range as the received amplitude varies symbol by symbol for our scheme while whole data packet may be lost for the conventional scheme. In this letter, we report the experimental results of our scheme equivalently developed using visible light communication.

A new delay-locked loop (DLL)-based multiphase generator is presented. To achieve an arbitrary integer multiplication factor, a voltage-controlled variable delay ring (VCDR) is adopted, and a new "generate and reset" (GNR) cell is developed. The whole circuit of the closed loop was designed and characterized in a 1.2-V 0.13-µm CMOS process. The simulated results show that the loop operates from 1.0 MHz to 1.2 GHz under the supply voltage of 1.2 V, and the GNR cell exhibits low supply sensitivity of 1300-ps/V.