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In the realm of wireless communications in 5G, 6G and beyond, deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been an innovative approach to extend the coverage area due to its easy deployment. Moreover, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)…

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In this paper, the optimization of deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over a reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-assisted visible light communication (VLC) system is studied. In the considered model, UAVs are required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Yihan Cang , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Chongwen Huang

Taking advantage of the rolling shutter effect of CMOS cameras in smartphones is a common practice to increase the transfered data rate with visible light communication (VLC) without employing external equipment such as photodiodes. VLC can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Ali Ugur Guler , Tristan Braud , Pan Hui

There is a paucity of random access protocols designed for alleviating collisions in visible light communication (VLC) systems, where carrier sensing is hard to be achieved due to the directionality of light. To resolve the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Linlin Zhao , Xuefen Chi , Shaoshi Yang

The directionality of optical signals provides an opportunity for efficient space reuse of optical links in visible light communication (VLC). Space reuse in VLC can enable multiple access communication from multiple light emitting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 MD Rashed Rahman , Ashwin Ashok

The continually growing demands for traffic as a result of advanced technologies in 5G and 6G systems offering services with intensive demands such as IoT and virtual reality applications has resulted in significant performance expectations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Abrar S. Alhazmi , Sanaa H. Mohamed and , T. E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

This paper explores the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in mitigating cross-system interference in spectrum sharing and secure wireless applications. Unlike conventional RIS that can only adjust the phase of the incoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Fangzhou Wang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In the modern era of radio frequency (RF) spectrum crunch, visible light communication (VLC) is a recent and promising alternative technology that operates at the visible light spectrum. Thanks to its unlicensed and large bandwidth, VLC can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Sifat Ibne Mushfique , Prabath Palathingal , Yusuf Said Eroglu , Murat Yuksel , Ismail Guvenc , Nezih Pala

Wireless communications refer to data transmissions in unguided propagation media through the use of wireless carriers such as radio frequency (RF) and visible light (VL) waves. The rising demand for high data rates, especially, in indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Hisham Abuella , Mohammed Elamassie , Murat Uysal , Zhengyuan Xu , Erchin Serpedin , Khalid A. Qaraqe , Sabit Ekin

Visible light communication (VLC) builds upon the dual use of existing lighting infrastructure for wireless data transmission. VLC has recently gained interest as cost-effective, secure, and energy-efficient wireless access technology…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-15 Saad Al-Ahmadi , Omar Maraqa , Murat Uysal , Sadiq M. Sait

Visible Light Communication (VLC) using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) has gained attention due to its low power consumption, long lifetime, and fast response. However, VLC suffers from optical noise generated by ambient light sources such as…

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Optical wireless communication (OWC) is envisioned as one of the main enabling technologies of 6G networks, complementing radio frequency (RF) systems to provide high data rates. One of the crucial issues in indoor OWC is service…

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Visible Light Communication (VLC) is one the most promising enabling technology for future 6G networks to overcome Radio-Frequency (RF)-based communication limitations thanks to a broader bandwidth, higher data rate, and greater efficiency.…

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In this work, we propose an innovative system that combines high-altitude platforms (HAPs) and optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (OIRS) to address line-of-sight (LOS) challenges in urban environments. Our three-hops system setup…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Shunyuan Shang , Emna Zedini , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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

In this paper, we introduce a couple of hardware implementations of compact VLC transmitter and receiver for the first time. Compared with related works, our VLC transmitter is non-RLL one, that means flicker mitigation can be guaranteed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-10 Duc-Phuc Nguyen , Dinh-Dung Le , Thi-Hong Tran , Huu-Thuan Huynh , Yasuhiko Nakashima

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS), which consists of numerous passive elements, has recently emerged in wireless communication systems as a promising technology providing 360$^\circ$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Hanxiao Ge , Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

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…

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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…

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