Cooperative optical wireless transmission for improving performance in indoor scenarios for visible light communications

In this paper, a novel cooperative transmission and reception scheme in Visible Light Communications (VLC) is proposed and evaluated. This new scheme provides improvements and reliability in large indoor scenarios, such as corridors, laboratories, shops or conference rooms, where the coverage needs...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on consumer electronics 2015-11, Vol.61 (4), p.393-401
Main Authors: Guzman, Borja Genoves, Serrano, Alejandro Lancho, Gil Jimenez, Víctor P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CoMP
Conferences
Cooperative transmission andreception
Corridors
Gain
Indoor
Interference
Noise levels
Nonlinear optics
Optical receivers
Proposals
Pulse Position Division Multiplexing
Radio frequency
Sidelobes
Terminals
VLC
Wireless communication
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Summary:In this paper, a novel cooperative transmission and reception scheme in Visible Light Communications (VLC) is proposed and evaluated. This new scheme provides improvements and reliability in large indoor scenarios, such as corridors, laboratories, shops or conference rooms, where the coverage needs to be obtained by using different access points when VLC is used. The main idea behind the proposal is a simple cooperative transmission scheme where the receiver terminal will obtain the signal from different access points at the same time. This proposal outperforms traditional VLC schemes, especially in Non-Line-of-Sight reception where around 3 dB of gain, with respect to traditional schemes, can be obtained for unoptimized parameters, and larger than 3 dB could easily be achieved. The cooperation is studied in terms of the percentage of light coming from the main access point and a parameter called sidelobes' amplitude level. The performance is evaluated according to the location within the atto-cell.
ISSN:0098-3063
1558-4127
DOI:10.1109/TCE.2015.7389772