Robust Cooperative Multicarrier Transmission Scheme for Optical Wireless Cellular Networks Articles uri icon

publication date

  • January 2018

start page

  • 197

end page

  • 200

issue

  • 2

volume

  • 30

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1041-1135

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1941-0174

abstract

  • Visible light communication (VLC) is a promising technology to achieve high data rates in heterogeneous scenarios. However, VLC strongly depends on the existence of a line-of-sight (LoS) link between transmitter and receiver to guarantee a good data rate performance, which is often a condition that is difficult to satisfy in practice. In this letter, a novel cooperative multicarrier transmission scheme is proposed, where neighboring attocells smartly cooperate to decrease the probability of blockage in the LoS link. This approach is compared to single-cell transmission schemes, obtaining notable gains in both received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio and cell data rate when blockage of the LoS link occurs toward the nearest base station.

subjects

  • Telecommunications

keywords

  • cooperative transmission; co-channel interference; frequency reuse; joint transmission; los blockage; macro-diversity; visible light communication