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Reflection-based relaying techniques in visible light communications: Will it work?

Reflection-based relaying techniques in visible light communications: Will it work?
Reflection-based relaying techniques in visible light communications: Will it work?

Visible light communication (VLC) is capable of satisfying the escalating data rate demand in indoor scenarios. The lighting infrastructure may also be exploited in the downlink of a wireless local area network (WLAN), where light-emitting diodes are used for transmitting information. The backhaul of VLC access points (APs) constitutes a potential bottleneck in WLANs, especially in large rooms where the number of APs is high. Thus, an alternative reflection-based cooperative wireless system concept is proposed, where no wired connections are required for connecting the APs. Then, its data rate analysis is developed based on the signal-to-noise ratio attained. The results show that the performance of the cooperative wireless system advocated closely approximates the performance of the traditional wired backhaul. Finally, we demonstrate by using Jain's index of fairness that the proposed scheme provides fair coverage quality for all users.

Cooperative transmission, joint transmission, relaying techniques, visible light communication
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Guzman, Borja Genoves
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Chen, Cheng
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Haas, Harald
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Guzman, Borja Genoves, Chen, Cheng, Jimenez, Victor P.Gil, Haas, Harald and Hanzo, Lajos (2020) Reflection-based relaying techniques in visible light communications: Will it work? IEEE Access, 8, 80922-80935, [9079516]. (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2990660).

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Visible light communication (VLC) is capable of satisfying the escalating data rate demand in indoor scenarios. The lighting infrastructure may also be exploited in the downlink of a wireless local area network (WLAN), where light-emitting diodes are used for transmitting information. The backhaul of VLC access points (APs) constitutes a potential bottleneck in WLANs, especially in large rooms where the number of APs is high. Thus, an alternative reflection-based cooperative wireless system concept is proposed, where no wired connections are required for connecting the APs. Then, its data rate analysis is developed based on the signal-to-noise ratio attained. The results show that the performance of the cooperative wireless system advocated closely approximates the performance of the traditional wired backhaul. Finally, we demonstrate by using Jain's index of fairness that the proposed scheme provides fair coverage quality for all users.

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Accepted/In Press date: 22 April 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 April 2020
Published date: 1 August 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: The work of Borja Genovés Guzmán was supported in part by the Spanish MECD FPU Fellowship Program. The work of Víctor P. Gil Jiménez and Borja was supported in part by the Spanish Government under the National Project TERESA-ADA (MINECO/AEI/FEDER, UE) under Grant TEC2017-90093-C3-2-R. The work of Harald Haas was supported in part by the EPSRC under Established Career Fellowship under Grant EP/R007101/1, in part by the Wolfson Foundation, and in part by the Royal Society. The work of Lajos Hanzo was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Project (COALESCE) under Grant EP/N004558/1, Grant EP/P034284/1, Grant EP/P034284/1, and Grant EP/P003990/1, in part by the Royal Society’s Global Challenges Research Fund Grant, and in part by the European Research Council’s Advanced Fellow Grant QuantCom.
Keywords: Cooperative transmission, joint transmission, relaying techniques, visible light communication

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Local EPrints ID: 439620
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/439620
ISSN: 2169-3536
PURE UUID: 49483d95-559c-4f28-b497-9bf7998eef7f
ORCID for Cheng Chen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7548-7234
ORCID for Lajos Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214

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Date deposited: 28 Apr 2020 16:31
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:53

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Author: Borja Genoves Guzman
Author: Cheng Chen ORCID iD
Author: Victor P.Gil Jimenez
Author: Harald Haas
Author: Lajos Hanzo ORCID iD

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