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Visible light communication (VLC) is expected to be a key component of future wireless networks due to its abundant license-free spectrum, inherent high-level security, and the already deployed lighting infrastructure. VLC performance,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Sylvester Aboagye , Telex M. N. Ngatched

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

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) is seen as a complementary wireless technology to Radio Frequency (RF). However, VLC is very sensitive to the signal blockage and suffers from shadowing due to the high directionality of the optical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Piotr Gawłowicz , Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo , Anatolij Zubow

Visible Light Ad Hoc Networks (LANETs) is being perceived as an emerging technology to complement Radio Frequency (RF) based ad hoc networks to reduce congestion in the overloaded RF spectrum. LANET is intended to support scenarios…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jithin Jagannath , Tommaso Melodia

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…

The abundant optical spectrum is a promising part of the electromagnetic spectrum for 6G communication systems. The visible light spectrum which is a part of the optical spectrum, can be used to provide communication and illumination…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Osama Zwaid Alsulami , T. E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

A novel approach that combines visible light communication (VLC) with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to simultaneously provide flexible communication and illumination is proposed. To minimize the power consumption, the locations of UAVs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Caili Guo , Chunyan Feng , Walid Saad

Visible light communication (VLC) is envisioned as a core component of future wireless communication networks due to, among others, the huge unlicensed bandwidth it offers and the fact that it does not cause any interference to existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Sylvester Aboagye , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia A. Dobre , H. Vincent Poor

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

Visible Light Communication (VLC) has gained great interest in the last decade due to the rapid developments in Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) fabrication. Efficiency, durability and long life span of LEDs make them a promising residential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Taner Cevik , Serdar Yilmaz

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a rapidly growing technology which can supplement the current radio frequency (RF) based wireless communication systems. VLC can play a huge part in solving the ever-increasing problem of spectrum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sifat Ibne Mushfique , Ahmad Alsharoa , Murat Yuksel

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

To design an efficient interference management and multiple access scheme for visible light communication (VLC) network, this letter leverages the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), which has received significant attention in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Xiaoke Zhang , Qian Gao , Chen Gong , Zhengyuan Xu

Visible light communications (VLC) have emerged as strong candidates for meeting the escalating demand for high data rates. Consider a VLC network, where multiple access-points (APs) serve both energy-harvesting users (EHUs), i.e., users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Mohanad Obeed , Hayssam Dahrouj , Anas M. Salhab , Salam A. Zummo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Visible Light Communication is the emerging field in the area of Indoor Optical Wireless Communication which uses white light LEDs for transmitting data and light simultaneously. LEDs can be modulated at very high speeds which increases its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Pranav Kumar Jha , Neha Mishra , D. Sriram Kumar

Future mobile networks are supposed to serve high data rates required by users. To accommodate the high data rates, a direct communication between nearby mobile terminals (MTs), known as Device-to-device (D2D) communication, can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Pavel Mach , Zdenek Becvar , Mehyar Najla , Stanislav Zvanovec

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a current technology which allows data to be transmitted by modulating information onto a light source. It has many advantages over traditional radio frequency communication and up to 10,000 times larger…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Shamin Achari , Alice Yi Yang , James Goodhead , Brendon Swanepoel , Ling Cheng

Despite the promising high-data rate features of visible light communications (VLC), they still suffer from unbalanced services due to blockages and channel fluctuation among users. This paper introduces and evaluates a new transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Mohanad Obeed , Hayssam Dahrouj , Anas M. Salhab , Salam A. Zummo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Visible light communication (VLC) is emerging as a key technology for future wireless communication systems due to its unique physical-layer advantages over traditional radio-frequency (RF)-based systems. However, its integration with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Chen Zhu , Xin Tong , Zhaoyang Zhang