Recent intensive and extensive development of the fifth-generation (5G) of cellular networks
has led to their deployment throughout much of the world. As part of this implementation …

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 …

The IEEE has established the standardization group 802.15. 7r1 “Short Range Optical
Wireless Communications”, which is currently in the process of developing a standard for …

Visible light communications (VLC) has been studied thoroughly in recent years as an
alternative or complementary technology to radio frequency communications. The reliability …

Despite the promising high-data rate features of visible light communications (VLC), they still
suffer from unbalanced services due to blockages and channel fluctuation among users …

When the distance between the source and the target is long, the signal will be affected by
atmospheric turbulence, weather conditions and obstacles, which cannot support the …

Visible light communications (VLC) builds upon the dual use of existing lighting
infrastructure for wireless data transmission. VLC has recently gained interest as cost …

Visible light communication (VLC) allows the dual use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for
wireless communication purposes in addition to their primary purpose of illumination. As in …

Uplink transmission is an issue for visible light communications due to the unpleasant
irradiance from the source light when placed close to the users. To overcome this problem …

In this paper, we investigate cooperative visible light communication (VLC) system where an
intermediate light source acts as a relay terminal. We assume that relay terminal operates in …