TY - JOUR
T1 - Cooperative visible light communications with full-duplex relaying
AU - Narmanlioglu, Omer
AU - Kizilirmak, Refik Caglar
AU - Miramirkhani, Farshad
AU - Uysal, Murat
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received March 14, 2017; revised May 22, 2017; accepted May 23, 2017. Date of publication May 26, 2017; date of current version June 8, 2017. The work of R. C. Kizilirmak was supported by the research grant from Nazarbayev University. The work of M. Uysal was supported by the Turkish Scientific and Research Council under Grant 215E311. Corresponding author: Refik Caglar Kizilirmak (e-mail: refik.kizilirmak@nu.edu.kz).
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PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - In this paper, we investigate cooperative visible light communication (VLC) system where an intermediate light source acts as a relay terminal. We assume that relay terminal operates in full-duplex mode. In contrast to radio frequency counterparts, full-duplex VLC terminal is relatively easier to implement due to directive propagation characteristic of light. We first model VLC relay terminal taking into account loop interference channel based on ray tracing simulations. Then, we investigate error rate performance of the relay-assisted VLC system. Our performance evaluations demonstrate the superiority of full-duplex relaying over half-duplex counterpart especially for high modulation sizes.
AB - In this paper, we investigate cooperative visible light communication (VLC) system where an intermediate light source acts as a relay terminal. We assume that relay terminal operates in full-duplex mode. In contrast to radio frequency counterparts, full-duplex VLC terminal is relatively easier to implement due to directive propagation characteristic of light. We first model VLC relay terminal taking into account loop interference channel based on ray tracing simulations. Then, we investigate error rate performance of the relay-assisted VLC system. Our performance evaluations demonstrate the superiority of full-duplex relaying over half-duplex counterpart especially for high modulation sizes.
KW - Visible light communication
KW - full-duplex relaying.
KW - relay-assisted communication
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U2 - 10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2708746
DO - 10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2708746
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028828782
SN - 1943-0655
VL - 9
JO - IEEE Photonics Journal
JF - IEEE Photonics Journal
IS - 3
M1 - 7934349
ER -