Optical wireless hybrid networks: Trends, opportunities, challenges, and research directions

MZ Chowdhury, MK Hasan, M Shahjalal… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical wireless communication (OWC) is an excellent complementary solution to its radio
frequency (RF) counterpart. OWC technologies have been demonstrated to be able to …

Coexistence of WiFi and LiFi toward 5G: concepts, opportunities, and challenges

M Ayyash, H Elgala, A Khreishah… - IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart phones, tablets, and the rise of the Internet of Things are driving an insatiable demand
for wireless capacity. This demand requires networking and Internet infrastructures to evolve …

Hybrid LiFi and WiFi networks: A survey

X Wu, MD Soltani, L Zhou, M Safari… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to tackle the rapidly growing number of mobile devices and their expanding
demands for Internet services, network convergence is envisaged to integrate different …

Visible light communication: A system perspective—Overview and challenges

SU Rehman, S Ullah, PHJ Chong, S Yongchareon… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Visible light communication (VLC) is a new paradigm that could revolutionise the future of
wireless communication. In VLC, information is transmitted through modulating the visible …

InGaN micro‐LED array enabled advanced underwater wireless optical communication and underwater charging

R Lin, X Liu, G Zhou, Z Qian, X Cui… - Advanced optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, the underwater applications of micro‐LED (light‐emitting diode) in light
emission, optical detection, and solar cell are demonstrated. Based on a high‐bandwidth …

Indoor visible light communication: A tutorial and survey

GA Mapunda, R Ramogomana… - Wireless …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the advancement of solid‐state devices for lighting, illumination is on the verge of being
completely restructured. This revolution comes with numerous advantages and viable …

Visible light communications for industrial applications—Challenges and potentials

Y Almadani, D Plets, S Bastiaens, W Joseph, M Ijaz… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a short-range optical wireless communication
technology that has been gaining attention due to its potential to offload heavy data traffic …

Applying VLC in 5G networks: Architectures and key technologies

L Feng, RQ Hu, J Wang, P Xu, Y Qian - Ieee Network, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visible light communication has gained tremendous attention recently and has become a
favorable complementary technology to millimeter-wave communication in short-range …

Hybrid RF/VLC systems: A comprehensive survey on network topologies, performance analyses, applications, and future directions

H Abuella, M Elamassie, M Uysal, Z Xu… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communications refer to data transmissions in unguided propagation media
through the use of wireless carriers such as radio frequency (RF) and visible light (VL) …

Secure hybrid VLC-RF systems with light energy harvesting

G Pan, J Ye, Z Ding - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a hybrid visible light communication-radio frequency (RF) system, including a
legitimate receiver (R) and an eavesdropper (E) is considered. R can harvest energy from …