Angle Diversity Receiver in LiFi Cellular Networks

As an emerging technology for wireless communications based on the visible light communication (VLC), Light-fidelity (LiFi) is considered as a complementary building block for fifth generation (5G) mobile networks. In this paper, we investigate the optimum field of view (FOV) for the angle diversity receiver (ADR) in LiFi cellular networks. The probability of visibility and the visible area of the ADR is defined. There is a trade off between the channel gain and visibility. An optimisation problem is formulated to maximise the channel gain, and the lower bound of the FOV of photodiodes (PDs) mounted on an ADR is derived. The simulation results show that the data rate is maximised when the FOV is minimised and the structure for the pyramid receiver (PR) achieving highest data rate is the one consisting of 6 PDs each with a FOV of 30 degree.

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