Multi-user visible light communications: State-of-the-art and future directions

Saad Al-Ahmadi; Omar Maraqa; Murat Uysal; Sadiq M. Sait

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2879885

Multi-user visible light communications: State-of-the-art and future directions

Saad Al-Ahmadi
, Omar Maraqa^*
, Murat Uysal
, Sadiq M. Sait

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Visible light communications (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 particularly for indoor user-dense environments. While initial studies in this area are mainly limited to single-user point-to-point links, more recent efforts have focused on multi-user VLC systems in an effort to transform VLC into a scalable and fully networked wireless technology. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of multi-user VLC systems discussing the recent advances on multi-user precoding, multiple access, resource allocation, and mobility management. We further provide possible directions for future research in this emerging topic.

Original language	English
Article number	8528460
Pages (from-to)	70555-70571
Number of pages	17
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2879885
State	Published - 2018

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The work of M. Uysal was supported by the Turkish Scientific and Research Council (TUBITAK) under Grant 215E311.

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© 2013 IEEE.

Keywords

MIMO
Visible light communications
handover
multi-user communications
non-orthogonal multiple access schemes
precoding
sum rate capacity

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General Materials Science
General Engineering

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