Cooperative hybrid VLC-RF systems with spatially random terminals

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 6396-6408

  Zhang, Chao ^a   Ye, Jia ^a   Pan, Gaofeng ^a   Ding, Zhiguo ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplify forwarding; decode forwarding; outage probability; radio frequency; stochastic geometry; visible light communication

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; DECODING; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; RADIO WAVES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AMPLIFY-FORWARDING; AVERAGE SYMBOL ERROR RATE (SER); M ARY QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATIONS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS (VLC);

VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85051760287     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: 15580857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2865949     Document Type: Article

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