2018/10/09 by Waled Gheth, Khaled M. Rabie, Gheth, Waled +7
Engineering · #FOS: Electrical engineering #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #eess.SP #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.04803
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.10169
arxiv created 2018/10/09 · arxiv updated 2018/10/12
This paper presents a comprehensive performance analysis of an integrated indoor power line communication (PLC)/visible light communication (VLC) system with the presence of a decode-and-forward (DF) relay. The existing indoor power line networks are used as the backbone for VLCs. The performance of the proposed system is evaluated in terms of the average capacity and the outage probability. A new unified mathematical method is developed for the PLC/VLC system and analytical expressions for the aforementioned performance metrics are derived. Monte Carlo simulations are provided throughout the paper to verify the correctness of the analysis. The results reveal that the performance of the proposed system deteriorates with increasing the end-to-end distance and improves with increasing the relay transmit power. It is also shown that the outage probability of the system under consideration is negatively affected by the vertical distance to user plane.