TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental Characterization of Multi-Hop Vehicular VLC Systems
AU - Aly, Bassam
AU - Elamassie, Mohammed
AU - Uysal, Murat
N1 - Funding Information:
The work of Bassam Aly was supported by the European Horizon 2020 MSC ITN (VISION) under Grant 764461. The work of M. Uysal was supported by the Turkish Scientific and Research Council (TUBITAK) under Grant 215E311.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/9/13
Y1 - 2021/9/13
N2 - In vehicular visible light communication (VLC), the reliable communication distance may be relatively short due to its dependence on many factors including the weather condition. This necessitates the use of relay-assisted systems to extend the transmission range. In this paper, we investigate experimentally the performance of vehicular multi-hop VLC systems in outdoor environments. Particularly, we first examine the effect of ambient noise on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) during a whole day. Then, we conduct two multi-hop experiments, i.e., one at daytime and one at nighttime. We measure the bit error rate (BER) for each individual hop and then obtain the overall performance of the multi-hop system. We further compare experimental BER with theoretical BER to confirm our results.
AB - In vehicular visible light communication (VLC), the reliable communication distance may be relatively short due to its dependence on many factors including the weather condition. This necessitates the use of relay-assisted systems to extend the transmission range. In this paper, we investigate experimentally the performance of vehicular multi-hop VLC systems in outdoor environments. Particularly, we first examine the effect of ambient noise on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) during a whole day. Then, we conduct two multi-hop experiments, i.e., one at daytime and one at nighttime. We measure the bit error rate (BER) for each individual hop and then obtain the overall performance of the multi-hop system. We further compare experimental BER with theoretical BER to confirm our results.
KW - Multi-hops
KW - Visible light communication
KW - outdoor measurements
KW - software-defined
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U2 - 10.1109/PIMRC50174.2021.9569682
DO - 10.1109/PIMRC50174.2021.9569682
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118149579
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC
BT - 2021 IEEE 32nd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 32nd IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2021
Y2 - 13 September 2021 through 16 September 2021
ER -