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Integrating visible light communication (VLC) and radio-frequency (RF) networks can improve the performance of communication systems in terms of coverage and data rates. However, adding RF links to VLC networks weakens the secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Anas M. Salhab , Salam A. Zummo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Visible light communication (VLC) enables access to huge unlicensed bandwidth, a higher security level, and no radio frequency interference. With these advantages, VLC emerges as a complementary solution to radio frequency communications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Alain R. Ndjiongue , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia A. Dobre , Harald Haas

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

This paper investigates an indoor hybrid visible light communication (VLC) and radio frequency (RF) scenario with two-hop downlink transmission. A light emitting diode (LED) transmits both data and energy via VLC to an energy-harvesting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Amir Hossein Fahim Raouf , Chethan Kumar Anjinappa , Ismail Guvenc

This paper investigates performance of a relay assisted hybrid Free Space Optical / Radio Frequency (FSO/RF) communication system. The proposed structure is particularly recommended anywhere that direct RF communication between mobile users…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Mohammad Ali Amirabadi

This paper provides a stochastic geometry framework to perform the coverage and rate analysis of a typical user in co-existing VLC and RF networks covering a large indoor area. The developed framework can be customized to capture the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Hina Tabassum , Ekram Hossain

This paper studies the performance of physical layer security (PLS) in a multi-user hybrid heterogeneous visible light communication (VLC) and radio frequency (RF) wireless communication system with simultaneous lightwave information and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Tuan A. Hoang , Thanh V. Pham , Chuyen T. Nguyen

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), which uses LEDs for both illumination and communication purposes, has recently emerged as either an alternative or a support system for radio frequency (RF) communication. VLC channel inside a room is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Cenk Albayrak , Kadir Turk , Emin Tugcu , Cemaleddin Simsek , Ayhan Yazgan

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

Most studies of reflecting intelligent surfaces (RISs)-assisted visible light communication (VLC) systems have focused on the integration of RISs in the channel to combat the line-of-sight (LoS) blockage and to enhance the corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Omar Maraqa , Telex M. N. Ngatched

This paper reports a detailed experimental characterization of optical performances of Visible Light Communication (VLC) system using a real traffic light for ultra-low latency, infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) communications for intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 M. Seminara , T. Nawaz , S. Caputo , L. Mucchi , J. Catani

This letter proposes a scheme assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for efficient uplink traffic multiplexing between enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable-low-latency communication (URLLC). The scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 João Henrique Inacio de Souza , Victor Croisfelt , Radosław Kotaba , Taufik Abrão , Petar Popovski

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

Providing uplink high data rate is one of the big concerns in visible light communication (VLC) systems. This paper introduces an uplink VLC system based on an infrared transmitter with beam steering to provide high data rates. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Osama Zwaid Alsulami , Mohammed T. Alresheedi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Visible light communication (VLC) is nowadays envisaged as a promising technology to enable new classes of services in intelligent transportation systems ranging, e.g., from assisted driving to autonomous vehicles. The assessment of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Stefano Caputo , Lorenzo Mucchi , Francesco Saverio Cataliotti , Marco Seminara , Tassadaq Nawaz , Jacopo Catani

With the capability of reconfiguring the wireless electromagnetic environment, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new paradigm for designing future wireless communication systems. In this paper, we consider optical IRS for improving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Shiyuan Sun , Fang Yang , Jian Song , Rui Zhang

The ever-increasing demand of mobile Internet and multimedia services poses unique and significant challenges for current and future generation wireless networks. These challenges are mainly relating to the support of massive ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Sarah S. Bawazir , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Sami Muhaidat , Yousof Al-Hammadi , George K. Karagiannidis

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

Providing high data rates is one of the big concerns in visible light communication (VLC) systems. This paper introduces a data centre design that use a VLC system for downlink communication. In this work, RYGB laser diodes (LD) are used as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-30 Osama Zwaid Alsulami , Mohamed O. I. Musa , Mohammed T. Alresheedi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani