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  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,757 Views
37 Pages

A Survey of Vehicular VLC Methodologies

  • Rasha Al Hasnawi and
  • Ion Marghescu

17 January 2024

Visible Light Communication (VLC) has recently emerged as an alternative to RF-based wireless communications. VLC for vehicles has demonstrated its potential for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) to exchange information between vehicles and i...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
9,206 Views
23 Pages

A Survey of NOMA for VLC Systems: Research Challenges and Future Trends

  • Hesham Sadat,
  • Mohamed Abaza,
  • Ali Mansour and
  • Ayman Alfalou

11 February 2022

Visible light communication (VLC) has become a promising technology for high data rate communications and an attractive complementary to conventional radio frequency (RF) communication. VLC is a secure, energy efficient and cost-effective technology...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Systems for Wireless Communications and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
543 Views
13 Pages

Digital PAM Mapping with Spatial Combining for Energy-Efficient VLC Transmitters

  • Qinghui Chen,
  • Zhenheng Chen,
  • Hong Wen and
  • Wenjuan Ruan

Visible light communication (VLC) employs light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for simultaneous illumination and wireless data transmission, offering advantages such as unlicensed spectrum, immunity to electromagnetic interference, and intrinsic security. Co...

(This article belongs to the Topic Visible Light Communications for Localization, Sensing and IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,777 Views
12 Pages

Indoor MIMO-VLC Using Angle Diversity Transmitters

  • Biao Qin,
  • Wanli Wen,
  • Min Liu,
  • Yanchao Zhang and
  • Chen Chen

21 July 2022

In this paper, we, for the first time, apply angle diversity transmitters (ADTs) to enhance the performance of multiple-input multiple-output visible light communication (MIMO-VLC) systems. The ADT is designed to consist of one center light emitting...

(This article belongs to the Collection Visible Light Communication (VLC))
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,552 Views
19 Pages

Indoor Wavelet OFDM VLC-MIMO System: Performance Evaluation

  • Waleed K. Badawi,
  • Marwa G. El-Hossary and
  • Moustafa H. Aly

5 February 2021

Both light emitting diode (LED) characteristics for illumination and communication simultaneously have made visible light communication-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (VLC-OFDM) a strong competitive to radio frequency (RF). In this junctu...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,647 Views
21 Pages

8 February 2023

The hybrid visible light communication/radio frequency (VLC/RF) transmission system could offer consistent coverage and high throughput, which are inherited from the VLC and RF link components separately. However, almost all current hybrid VLC/RF sch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Optical Communication in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,558 Views
18 Pages

A Novel and Adaptive Angle Diversity-Based Receiver for 6G Underground Mining VLC Systems

  • Pablo Palacios Játiva,
  • Iván Sánchez,
  • Ismael Soto,
  • Cesar A. Azurdia-Meza and ,
  • David Zabala-Blanco,
  • Muhammad Ijaz,
  • Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi and
  • David Plets
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

22 October 2022

Visible light communication (VLC) is considered an enabling technology for future 6G wireless systems. Among the many applications in which VLC systems are used, one of them is harsh environments such as Underground Mining (UM) tunnels. However, thes...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,204 Views
14 Pages

The field of view (FOV) is an important parameter of a visible light communication (VLC) receiver. A variable FOV can be useful to mitigate interference from neighboring cells in a multi-cell VLC network. The existing works on dynamic FOV VLC receive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Optical Wireless Communications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,250 Views
30 Pages

A Review of Hybrid VLC/RF Networks: Features, Applications, and Future Directions

  • Lisandra Bravo Alvarez,
  • Samuel Montejo-Sánchez,
  • Lien Rodríguez-López,
  • Cesar Azurdia-Meza and
  • Gabriel Saavedra

30 August 2023

The expectation for communication systems beyond 5G/6G is to provide high reliability, high throughput, low latency, and high energy efficiency services. The integration between systems based on radio frequency (RF) and visible light communication (V...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optical Technologies for Communications, Perception, and Chips)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,453 Views
13 Pages

31 December 2020

As a novel mode of indoor wireless communication, visible light communication (VLC) should consider the illumination functions besides the primary communication function. Dimming control is one of the most crucial illumination functions for VLC syste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visible Light Communication (VLC))
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,869 Views
18 Pages

Performance Analysis of Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Relaying over VLC Channels

  • Waled Gheth,
  • Khaled M. Rabie,
  • Bamidele Adebisi,
  • Muhammad Ijaz and
  • Georgina Harris

30 June 2020

The line-of-sight (LoS) channel is one of the requirements for efficient data transmission in visible-light communications (VLC), but this cannot always be guaranteed in indoor applications for a variety of reasons, such as moving objects and the lay...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,527 Views
22 Pages

Comprehensive Survey on VLC in E-Healthcare: Channel Coding Schemes and Modulation Techniques

  • Javier Guaña-Moya,
  • Milton Román Cañizares,
  • Pablo Palacios Játiva,
  • Iván Sánchez and ,
  • Dayana Ruminot and
  • Fernando Vergara Lobos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 October 2024

The integration of information and communication technologies in the field of healthcare has generated a positive transformation in the traditional way of providing patient care, optimizing medical services, and streamlining healthcare operations. Tr...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,595 Views
17 Pages

2 December 2022

Industry 4.0 requires high-speed data exchange that includes fast, reliable, low-latency, and cost-effective data transmissions. As visible light communication (VLC) can provide reliable, low-latency, and secure connections that do not penetrate wall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Future Communication System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,155 Views
22 Pages

An Enhanced VLC Channel Model for Underground Mining Environments Considering a 3D Dust Particle Distribution Model

  • Pablo Palacios Játiva,
  • Cesar A. Azurdia-Meza,
  • Iván Sánchez,
  • David Zabala-Blanco and ,
  • Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi,
  • Ismael Soto and
  • Fabian Seguel
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 March 2022

Underground Mining (UM) is a hostile industry that generally requires a wireless communication system as a cross-cutting axis for its optimal operation. Therefore, in the last five years, it has been shown that, in addition to radio-frequency-based c...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,389 Views
27 Pages

29 December 2023

This paper introduces a groundbreaking approach to transform urban mobility by integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Visible Light Communication (VLC) technologies into traffic management systems within smart cities. With the continued grow...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Networks and UAV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
470 Views
28 Pages

With advances in emerging material technologies, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted vehicular networks have been gaining growing interest. By adaptively shaping the wireless propagation environment, IRSs can improve vehicular network quali...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,454 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing Vehicular VLC Systems with Multi-Relay Techniques: A Performance Evaluation

  • Rasha Al Hasnawi,
  • Cristina Ioana Marghescu and
  • Alexandru Rusu-Casandra

This paper provides a comprehensive study to investigate the potential of multi-relay methods in V2V-VLC systems through detailed performance analysis using realistic channel modeling based on ray tracing. Key performance metrics evaluated include ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,447 Views
16 Pages

Effective Current Pre-Amplifiers for Visible Light Communication (VLC) Receivers

  • Simon-Ilias Poulis,
  • Georgios Papatheodorou,
  • Christoforos Papaioannou,
  • Yiorgos Sfikas and ,
  • Marina E. Plissiti,
  • Aristides Efthymiou,
  • John Liaperdos and
  • Yiorgos Tsiatouhas
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Visible light communication (VLC) is an upcoming wireless communication technology. In a VLC system, signal integrity under low illumination intensity and high transmission frequencies are of great importance. Towards this direction, the performance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue MOCAST 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,027 Views
15 Pages

A Hybrid Handover Scheme for Vehicular VLC/RF Communication Networks

  • Linqiong Jia,
  • Shicheng Feng,
  • Yijin Zhang and
  • Jin-Yuan Wang

3 July 2024

Visible light communication (VLC) is a promising complementary technology to its radio frequency (RF) counterpart to satisfy the high quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of intelligent vehicular communications by reusing LED street lights. In this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automotive Visible Light Communications (AutoVLC))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,693 Views
24 Pages

Visible light communication (VLC) is an emerging optical wireless technology capable of delivering high data rates for both indoor and outdoor environments. When combined with multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems, VLC demonstrates enhanced...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,043 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Wavelength Path Loss Model for Indoor VLC with Mobile Human Blockage

  • Yue Yin,
  • Pan Tang,
  • Jianhua Zhang,
  • Zheng Hu and ,
  • Liang Xia and
  • Guangyi Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 December 2023

Visible light communication (VLC) is one of the candidate technologies for the sixth generation (6G) networks. The path loss model is particularly important for link budget estimation and network planning in VLC. Due to the wideband nature and the ex...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
527 Views
28 Pages

16 July 2026

Visible light communication (VLC) is widely regarded as a key enabler for future vehicular networks, thanks to its extremely large unlicensed bandwidth and non-interference with existing radio frequency (RF) communication networks. With the goal of m...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,025 Views
41 Pages

28 January 2021

Visible light communications (VLC) have received significant attention as a way of moving part of the saturated indoor wireless traffic to the wide and unregulated visible optical spectrum. Nowadays, VLC are considered as a suitable technology, for s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Indoor and Outdoor Visible Light Communications (VLC) Applications and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,939 Views
9 Pages

9 January 2019

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can be an effective solution to the limited bandwidth of light emitting diodes for visible light communication (VLC) systems to support multiuser communication. The current available works for NOMA VLC systems ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Light Communication: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,613 Views
25 Pages

Statistical Modeling of Wall Roughness and Its Influence on NLOS VLC Channels in Underground Mining

  • Sebastian Cornejo,
  • Pablo Palacios Játiva,
  • Cesar Azurdia Meza and
  • Iván Sánchez

22 February 2025

This study investigates the impact of wall roughness on the performance of the Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) component in Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems designed for underground mining environments, adhering to safety and communication standard...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,794 Views
24 Pages

Visible Light Communication (VLC) offers distinctive advantages over conventional radio frequency; wide unlicensed spectrum, resistance to electrometric interference and low susceptibility to security risks, are few to name. Excitingly, VLC becomes a...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,000 Views
13 Pages

Cooperative Full-Duplex V2V-VLC in Rectilinear and Curved Roadway Scenarios

  • Diego J. Cuba-Zúñiga,
  • Samuel B. Mafra and
  • J. Ricardo Mejía-Salazar

3 July 2020

We study here the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) visible light communication (VLC) between two cars moving along different roadway scenarios: (i) a multiple-lane rectilinear roadway and (ii) a multiple-lane curvilinear roadway. Special emphasis was given t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Indoor and Outdoor Visible Light Communications (VLC) Applications and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,370 Views
20 Pages

The bit error ratio (BER) performance of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) visible light communication (VLC) system is poor due to the unequal distances between adjacent points in the superposition constellation (SC). In this paper, we propose...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visible Light Communication (VLC))
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,940 Views
14 Pages

13 November 2022

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is deemed to be a prospective multiple access technology of the next generation. However, in visible light communication (VLC), when advanced hybrid optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (O-OFDM), su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Visible Light Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,702 Views
7 Pages

25 February 2019

Visible light communication (VLC) has attracted tremendous attention due to two functions: communication and illumination. Both reliable data transmission and lighting quality need to be considered when the transmitted signal is designed. To achieve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Communications and Networking: Prospects in Industrial Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,898 Views
10 Pages

4 October 2018

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered as a promising technique in visible light communication (VLC) systems for performance enhancement. In order to improve the system’s energy efficiency, we carry out transceiver design for an NOMA VLC...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,693 Views
23 Pages

On the Achievable Max-Min User Rates in Multi-Carrier Centralized NOMA-VLC Networks

  • Omar Maraqa,
  • Umair F. Siddiqi,
  • Saad Al-Ahmadi and
  • Sadiq M. Sait

26 May 2021

Visible light communications (VLC) is gaining interest as one of the enablers of short-distance, high-data-rate applications, in future beyond 5G networks. Moreover, non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA)-enabled schemes have recently emerged as a pro...

(This article belongs to the Collection Visible Light Communication (VLC))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,011 Views
13 Pages

22 March 2019

For requiring high communication rate and high-quality illumination, multi-color light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been utilized in visible light communication (VLC) systems and attracted substantial research interests. It should be noted that multip...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,322 Views
26 Pages

Visible light communication (VLC) is considered to be one of the key technologies for advancing the next-generation intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). However, in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) VLC, the line-of-s...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,089 Views
13 Pages

Demonstration of a Hybrid B5G System Integrating VLC and RF-Based Technologies with Access Networks

  • Tomás Powell Villena Andrade,
  • Celso Henrique de Souza Lopes,
  • Letícia Carneiro de Souza and
  • Arismar Cerqueira Sodré Junior

19 January 2025

Visible-light communication (VLC) has emerged as a promising technology to provide the very high-throughput wireless communications demanded by beyond-fifth-generation (B5G) applications. However, few works are found in the literature regarding the i...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,816 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2022

Wireless communication technology adopting electromagnetic waves in an unlicensed spectrum, such as visible light, for communication has attracted wide research efforts. Visible light communication (VLC) utilizes visible light as a communication medi...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS))
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,406 Views
36 Pages

Optical-OFDM VLC System: Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Enhancement and Performance Evaluation

  • Yasser A. Zenhom,
  • Ehab K. I. Hamad,
  • Mohammed Alghassab and
  • Mohamed M. Elnabawy

7 May 2024

Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems are favoured for numerous applications due to their extensive bandwidth and resilience to electromagnetic interference. This study delineates various constructions of Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Mul...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,158 Views
15 Pages

A Superimposed QD-Based Optical Antenna for VLC: White LED Source

  • Shaghayegh Chamani,
  • Ali Rostami and
  • Peyman Mirtaheri

27 July 2022

Visible light communication (VLC) is a versatile enabling technology for following high-speed wireless communication because of its broad unlicensed spectrum. In this perspective, white light-emitting diodes (LED) provide both illumination and data t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,040 Views
12 Pages

20 November 2022

Considering the prerequisite need for a protected e-commerce platform, absence of haptic interaction in head-mounted displays (HMD), and exploitation of faster communication technology, this research work aims to present an amended version of the tel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embedded System for Smart Sensors/Actuators and IoT Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,927 Views
11 Pages

1 February 2023

One of the main challenges in the deployment of visible light communication (VLC) in realistic application fields, such as intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), is represented by the presence of large background noise levels on top of the optica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automotive Visible Light Communications (AutoVLC))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
433 Views
28 Pages

Indoor visible light communication (VLC) has attracted increasing attention as a promising wireless access technology because of its large unlicensed bandwidth and dual functionality of illumination and data transmission. However, practical VLC syste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Optical Wireless Communications—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,224 Views
13 Pages

24 October 2022

Indoorlocation-based service (LBS) technology has been emerged as a major research topic in recent years. Positioning technology is essential for providing LBSs. The existing indoor positioning solutions generally use radio-frequency (RF)-based commu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine-Learning-Based Localization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,481 Views
12 Pages

13 December 2024

(1) Background: Sea fish with a high level of omega-3 very long-chain (VLC) PUFAs makes them a valuable component of a healthy diet. One of the most popular fish products is fish fingers, for which the market is still growing. The content of omega-3...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,359 Views
27 Pages

25 December 2023

Unexpected traffic incidents cause safety concerns and intense traffic congestion on crowded urban road networks. Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET)-aided Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) aim to mitigate these risks through timely dissemination of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,406 Views
18 Pages

25 February 2024

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems applied with a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based indoor visible light communication (VLC). We present two efficient user-pairing algor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Optical Wireless Communication)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,100 Views
12 Pages

Orthogonal Subblock Division Multiple Access for OFDM-IM-Based Multi-User VLC Systems

  • Yungui Nie,
  • Jiamin Chen,
  • Wanli Wen,
  • Min Liu and ,
  • Xiong Deng and
  • Chen Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an orthogonal subblock division multiple access (OSDMA) scheme for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with index modulation (OFDM-IM)-based multi-user visible light communication (MU-VL...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Optical Wireless Communication (OWC))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,164 Views
9 Pages

30 October 2024

To achieve higher visible light communication (VLC) traffic capacity, using the wide bandwidth light-emitting diode (LED) and spectral efficiency modulation signal, is currently the most commonly used method. In this demonstration, we apply the ortho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microelectronics and Optoelectronic Devices: From Fundamental Research to Advanced Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,505 Views
17 Pages

27 December 2022

In this paper, the blockage problem of the optical link between AGV (autonomous ground vehicles) and AP (access point) in the logistics–warehousing VLC (visible light communication) network is analyzed. First, based on the random geometric mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optical Communication and Network)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,783 Views
18 Pages

10 July 2023

Lipids serve many roles in the neural system, from synaptic stabilization and signaling to DNA regulation and neuroprotection. They also regulate inflammatory responses, maintain cellular membrane structure, and regulate the homeostatic balance of io...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of Nutrients on Eye Health)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,436 Views
13 Pages

Performance Analysis of DCO-OFDM in IEEE 802.11bb VLC PHY Modes: Impact of Biasing Techniques and Optical Channel Dispersion

  • Nelson Jaque Intriago,
  • Alex Cueva Ayala,
  • Christian Aguirre Navas,
  • Wilson Taipe Chicaiza and
  • Martha Cecilia Paredes-Paredes

15 November 2025

This paper presents a performance analysis of Direct Current-biased Optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) under the IEEE 802.11bb standard for Visible Light Communication (VLC). The study covers all physical layer (PHY) modes (HT, VHT, and HE) through a complete s...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The XXXIII Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

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