TY - GEN
T1 - Handover in VLC networks with coordinated multipoint transmission
AU - Demir, Muhammet Selim
AU - Miramirkhani, Farshad
AU - Uysal, Murat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2018/1/31
Y1 - 2018/1/31
N2 - In this work, we consider a cellular visible light communication (VLC) network where each ceiling luminary serves as an access point (AP). The network is assumed to support coordinated multipoint transmission (CoMP). The user is mainly served by an AP (i.e., luminary) from which he/she gets the strongest signal. When the user moves towards the cell edge, the received signal from the served AP drops. Based on the handover algorithm decision, a handover to another AP can take place or CoMP is initiated. In the case of CoMP, the user is jointly served by two coordinating APs that transmit the same information. We compare the performance of proposed joint transmission-handover algorithm with conventional hard handover and demonstrate significant performance gains in terms of user data rate.
AB - In this work, we consider a cellular visible light communication (VLC) network where each ceiling luminary serves as an access point (AP). The network is assumed to support coordinated multipoint transmission (CoMP). The user is mainly served by an AP (i.e., luminary) from which he/she gets the strongest signal. When the user moves towards the cell edge, the received signal from the served AP drops. Based on the handover algorithm decision, a handover to another AP can take place or CoMP is initiated. In the case of CoMP, the user is jointly served by two coordinating APs that transmit the same information. We compare the performance of proposed joint transmission-handover algorithm with conventional hard handover and demonstrate significant performance gains in terms of user data rate.
KW - DCO-OFDM
KW - Visible light communications
KW - handover
KW - joint transmission
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U2 - 10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277715
DO - 10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2017.8277715
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050717288
T3 - 2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2017
SP - 1
EP - 5
BT - 2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2017
Y2 - 5 June 2017 through 8 June 2017
ER -