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One of the main revolutionary features of 5G networks is the ultra-low latency that will enable new services such as those for the future smart vehicles. The 5G technology will be able to support extreme-low latency. Thanks to new…

Wireless communications using light waves are called visible light communication. A technique called Physical-layer Network coding allows several users to communicate simultaneously over the same channel in a distributed space-time Coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-03 Abdellah Tahenni , Fatiha Merazka

Visible light communication (VLC) is an emerging technique that uses light-emitting diodes (LED) to combine communication and illumination. It is considered as a promising scheme for indoor wireless communication that can be deployed at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-09-19 Houssem Sifaou , Ki-Hong Park , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The advent of the fifth-generation technology promises to bring about more vertical applications and emerging services that include vehicular networks and intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). To achieve their vision of real-time and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pedro E. Gória Silva , Eduardo S. Lima , Jules M. Moualeu , Mohamed Korium , Pedro H. J. Nardelli

This paper proposes an indoor visible light communication (VLC) system with multiple transmitters and receivers. Due to diffusivity of LED light beams, photodiode receive signals from many directions. We use one concave and one convex lens…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Jiaqi Wei , Chen Gong , Nuo Huang , Zhengyuan Xu

The coexistence of radio frequency (RF) and visible light communications (VLC) in typical indoor environments can be leveraged to support vast user quality-of-service (QoS) needs. In this paper, we target a hybrid RF/VLC network in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Marwan Hammouda , Sami Akın , Anna Maria Vegni , Harald Haas , Jürgen Peissig

This paper investigates a dual-hop joint visible light communication (VLC) and backscatter communication (BC) relaying framework under the finite blocklength (FBL) constraint, aiming at energy-neutral Ambient Internet of Things (A-IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Boxuan Xie , Lauri Mela , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jiacheng Wang , Kalle Ruttik , Riku Jäntti

This paper proposes a cascaded multiwire-power line communication (PLC)/multiple-visible light communication (VLC) system. This hybrid architecture offers low installation cost, enhanced performance, practical feasibility, and a wide range…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hugerles S. Silva , Higo T. P. Silva , Paulo V. B. Tomé , Felipe A. P. Figueiredo , Edson P. da Silva , Rausley A. A. de Souza

Light can be used for wireless information transmission apart from illumination; that is the key idea behind visible-light communication (VLC), one of the disruptive technologies of our days. It combines remarkably high data rates due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Constantinos Valagiannopoulos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Vassilios Kovanis

With the wireless internet access being increasingly popular with services such as HD video streaming and so on, the demand for high data consuming applications is also rising. This increment in demand is coupled with a proportional rise in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Haneet Kour , Rakesh Kumar Jha , Sanjeev Jain

Due to their Radio-Frequency (RF) immunity, Visible Light Communications (VLC) pose as a promising technology for interference sensitive applications such as medical data networks. In this paper, we investigate mixed RF-VLC relaying systems…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Milica I. Petkovic , Aleksandra M. Cvetkovic , Milan Narandzic , Nestor D. Chatzidiamantis , Dejan Vukobratovic , George K. Karagiannidis

The abstract discusses the significance of Visible Light Communication (VLC) as an efficient and cost-effective solution in the era of green technology. VLC not only provides illumination but also high-speed data transmission through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Vailet Hikmat Faraj Al Khattat , Siti Barirah Ahmad Anas , Abdu Saif

Visible Light Communication~(VLC) systems provide not only illumination and data communication, but also indoor monitoring services if the effect that different events create on the received optical signal is properly tracked. For this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Mehmet C. Ilter , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jyri Hämäläinen , Risto Wichman

Demands for broadband wireless access services is expected to outstrip the spectrum capacity in the near-term - "spectrum crunch". Deploying additional femotocells to address this challenge is cost-inefficient, due to the backhaul challenge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Sihua Shao , Abdallah Khreishah , Issa Khalil

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks raises significant generality and scalability challenges due to energy consumption, deployment complexity, and environmental impact.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Boxuan Xie , Yifan Zhang , Kalle Koskinen , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Riku Jäntti

Visible Light Communication (VLC) provides an energy-efficient wireless solution by using existing LED-based illumination for high-speed data transmissions. Although solar cells offer the advantage of simultaneous energy harvesting and data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yanxiang Wang , Yihe Yan , Jiawei Hu , Cheng Jiang , Brano Kusy , Ashraf Uddin , Mahbub Hassan , Wen Hu

The proliferation of mobile Internet and connected devices, offering a variety of services at different levels of performance, represents a major challenge for the fifth generation wireless networks and beyond. This requires a paradigm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Hanaa Marshoud , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Sajjad Hussain , Muhammad Ali Imran , Bayan S. Sharif

Visible light communication (VLC) technology was introduced as a key enabler for the next generation of wireless networks, mainly thanks to its simple and low-cost implementation. However, several challenges prohibit the realization of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Shimaa Naser , Lina Bariah , Sami Muhaidat , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri , Ernesto Damiani , Merouane Debbah , Paschalis C. Sofotasios

Rapidly increasing demand for high speed data is pushing 6G wireless networks to support larger link scales, lower latency, and higher spectral efficiency. Visible light communications (VLC) is a strong complement to radio frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Xuesong Wang

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is based on the dual use of the illumination infrastructure for wireless data communication. The major interest on this communication technology lies on its specific features to be a secure, cost-effective…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Antonio Costanzo , Valeria Loscri , Mauro Biagi