This paper proposes using cooperative communication based on optoelectronic (O-E-O) amplify-and-forward relay terminals to reduce the influence of the blockage and shadowing resulting from human movement in a beam steering Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) system. The simulation results indicate that on average, the outage probability of the cooperative communication mode with O-E-O relay terminals is two orders of magnitude lower than the outage probability of the system without relay terminals.
@article{arxiv.2304.04492,
title = {Relay Assisted Multiuser OWC Systems under Human Blockage},
author = {Y. Zeng and Sanaa H. Mohamed and Ahmad Qidan and Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi and Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04492},
year = {2023}
}