Protocol design and capacity analysis in hybrid network of visible light communication and OFDMA systems

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1770-1778

  Bao, Xu ^a   Zhu, Xiaorong ^b   Song, Tiecheng ^c   Ou, Yanqiu ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Capacity analysis; Horizontal and vertical handover; Hybrid visible light communication (VLC) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) network; VLC frame format

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

CAPACITY ANALYSIS; DOWNLINK TRANSMISSIONS; FRAME FORMAT; POISSON POINT PROCESS; VERTICAL HANDOVERS; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS (VLC); WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84903639482     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2013.2286264     Document Type: Article

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