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In this work, a novel resource allocation scheme is proposed for the self-powered visible light communication and positioning (SPVLCP) system based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). This scheme can balance the performance of communication, positioning, and energy harvesting by optimizing the power splitting (PS) at the receiver and power allocating on each subcarrier using the multi-verse optimization (MVO) algorithm. The performance of the SPVLCP system using the proposed resource allocation scheme is investigated through simulation and experiment for different constraint conditions and transmission rates. The results indicate that the SPVLCP system using the proposed resource allocation scheme has better performance compared with that using the uniform power allocation scheme. • Communication, positioning, and energy harvesting can be performed simultaneously. • Resource competition exists in the integrated system. • The scheme of resource allocation has better performance than uniform power allocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]