TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal Design of Dual-Hop VLC/RF Communication System With Energy Harvesting
AU - Rakia, Tamer
AU - Yang, Hong Chuan
AU - Gebali, Fayez
AU - Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2016/7/28
Y1 - 2016/7/28
N2 - In this letter, we consider a dual-hop heterogeneous visible light communication (VLC)/radio frequency (RF) communication system to extend the coverage of VLC systems. Besides detecting the information over VLC link, the relay is able to harvest energy from the first-hop VLC link, by extracting the direct current component of the received optical signal, and uses the harvested energy to retransmit the data to a mobile terminal over the second-hop RF link. We investigate the optimal design of the hybrid system in terms of data rate maximization.
AB - In this letter, we consider a dual-hop heterogeneous visible light communication (VLC)/radio frequency (RF) communication system to extend the coverage of VLC systems. Besides detecting the information over VLC link, the relay is able to harvest energy from the first-hop VLC link, by extracting the direct current component of the received optical signal, and uses the harvested energy to retransmit the data to a mobile terminal over the second-hop RF link. We investigate the optimal design of the hybrid system in terms of data rate maximization.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622579
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7524747/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84992184139&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2595561
DO - 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2595561
M3 - Article
SN - 1089-7798
VL - 20
SP - 1979
EP - 1982
JO - IEEE Communications Letters
JF - IEEE Communications Letters
IS - 10
ER -