What is LiFi?

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1533-1544

  Haas, Harald ^a   Yin, Liang ^a   Wang, Yunlu ^a   Chen, Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base stations; communication networks; communication systems; handover; millimeter wave communication; mobile communication; modulation; multiaccess communication; wireless communication

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; BENCHMARKING; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FEMTOCELL; LIGHT; MILLIMETER WAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MODULATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION; WI-FI; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HANDOVER; MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MULTI-ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84963759082     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2015.2510021     Document Type: Article

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