Demonstration of RF-VLC Hand-over using Receiver side Channel Selection

Sathisha, RN and Ahmed, F and Raghunathan, V (2023) Demonstration of RF-VLC Hand-over using Receiver side Channel Selection. In: 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS, COMSNETS 2023, 3 - 8 January 2023, Bangalore, pp. 382-386.

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Abstract

Visible light communication (VLC) is a potential alternate technology to cater to high data rate demands of emerging mobile devices. RF being a technology with large coverage, the coexistence of RF and VLC technologies brings up solutions for high data rate and seamless coverage capabilities. In a scenario of RF-VLC coexistence network, the narrow coverage area of VLC zones can act as hotspots for large date download and high-speed multimedia streaming capabilities, while RF can provide wide area coverage. We report experimental demonstration of real-time high quality multimedia data streaming over a heterogeneous RF-VLC network with the receiver selecting the suitable transmitted channel based on signal strength measurement. The RF AP is created to provide a large coverage with overlapping to narrow beam VLC coverage. Dual receivers capable of simultaneously receiving RF and VLC signals is installed on a mobile cart to demonstrate the user mobility across the heterogeneous network. The quantitative characterization of the RF-VLC hand-over performance is also discussed. © 2023 IEEE.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	2023 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS, COMSNETS 2023
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Keywords:	Signal receivers; Visible light communication; Wide area networks, Channel selection; Communicationtechnology; Coverage area; Hand over; High data rate; High data-rates; Hotspots; Multimedia streaming; RF-visible light communication coexistence; Side-channel, Heterogeneous networks
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	17 Mar 2023 06:06
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2023 06:06
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/81031

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