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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

Visible light communication (VLC) is a technology that complements radio frequency (RF) to fulfill the ever-increasing demand for wireless data traffic. The ubiquity of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), exploited as transmitters, increases the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Borja Genoves Guzman , Maximo Morales Cespedes , Victor P. Gil Jimenez , Ana Garcia Armada , Maite Brandt-Pearce

Extreme crowding of electromagnetic spectrum in recent years has led to the challenges in designing sensing and communications systems. Both systems require a broad range of bandwidth, thus resulting in competing interests in exploiting the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Longfei Yin , Ziang Liu , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Mohammad Alaee-Kerahroodi , Bruno Clerckx

One of the main aims of indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems is to deliver a high data rate service in single user and in multiuser scenarios. A key obstacle is the ability of the indoor VLC channel to support high data rates in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Safwan Hafeedh Younus , Aubida A. Al-Hameed , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

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 communication (VLC) systems can provide illumination and communication simultaneously via light emitting diodes (LEDs). Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms transmitted in a VLC system will have high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Z. Yu , R. J. Baxley , G. T. Zhou

In this paper, we consider a cognitive indoor visible light communications (VLC) system, comprised of multiple access points serving primary and secondary users through the orthogonal frequency division multiple access method. A cognitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Marwan Hammouda , Jürgen Peissig , Anna Maria Vegni

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) is a promising solution to address the growing demand for wireless data, leveraging the widespread use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as transmitters. However, its deployment is challenged by link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Borja Genoves Guzman , Maïté Brandt-Pearce

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

Optical wireless technology has the potential to complement the wireless access services provided so far over RF. Apart from the abundant unlicensed bandwidth available for ultra-dense deployments over optical wireless bands, optical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Mohsen Abedi , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Risto Wichman

The low-pass characteristics of front-end elements including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodiodes (PDs) limit the transmission data rate of visible light communication (VLC) and Light Fidelity (LiFi) systems. Using multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Cheng Chen , Shenjie Huang , Iman Tavakkolnia , Majid Safari , Harald Haas

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

In this paper, we consider the sixth generation (6G) sub-networks, where hyper reliable low latency communications (HRLLC) requirements are expected to be met. We focus on a scenario where multiple sub-networks are active in the service…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Mohamed Elwekeil , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Paolo Baracca , Stefano Buzzi

This paper centers around a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) visible light communication (VLC) system, where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) benefits from a light emitting diode (LED) array to serve photo-diode (PD)-equipped users for…

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

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

Indoor visible light communication (VLC) is a promising sixth-generation (6G) technology, as its directional and sensitive optical signals are naturally suited for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, current research…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Xinyan Xie , Xuesong Wang , Xin Lai , Yongheng Wen , Fengrui Yang , Haoyang He , Lai Zhang , Dong Zhao

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques have recently demonstrated significant potentials in visible light communications (VLC), as they can overcome the modulation bandwidth limitation and provide substantial improvement in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Hanaa Marshoud , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Sami Muhaidat , Bayan S. Sharif , George K. Karagiannidis

A visible light communication (VLC) system can adopt multi-color light emitting diode (LED) arrays to support multiple users. In this paper, a multi-layer coding and constrained partial group decoding (CPGD) method is proposed to tackle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-22 Guangtao Zheng , Chen Gong , Zhengyuan Xu