Journal
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2904954
Keywords
Visible light communication (VLC); physical-layer network coding (PNC); phase alignment; power ratio
Funding
- Hong Kong Research Grants Council (GRF Project) [14200614]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61701311]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China [2017A030310334]
- Shenzhen NSF [JCYJ20170818095107583]
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Deploying relay nodes in visible light communication (VLC) relieves the requirement of line-of-sight transmission and thus extends the service coverage of VLC systems. In this paper, we propose to employ physical-layer network coding (PNC) in the VLC system to increase its throughput by boosting the data transmission at the relay node. We design a unified PNC-VLC framework that includes both the physical-layer signal processing algorithm and the medium access control method. To further improve the feasibility, we propose a novel phase-aligning method to counter the phase offset among nodes in practical VLC systems. Experimental results show a throughput improvement of 88.23% by employing the PNC-VLC framework, and the link budget is reduced by 4 dB at a bit error rate of 3.8 x 10(-3) by using the phase-aligning method.
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