A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction

A Jahid, MH Alsharif, TJ Hall - Journal of network and computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the unprecedented growth of high speed multimedia services and diversified
applications initiated from the massive connectivity of IoT devices, 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) …

Optical wireless hybrid networks: Trends, opportunities, challenges, and research directions

MZ Chowdhury, MK Hasan, M Shahjalal… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical wireless communication (OWC) is an excellent complementary solution to its radio
frequency (RF) counterpart. OWC technologies have been demonstrated to be able to …

Recent trends in underwater visible light communication (UVLC) systems

MF Ali, DNK Jayakody, Y Li - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, underwater visible light communication (UVLC) has become a potential
wireless carrier candidate for signal transmission in highly critical, unknown, and …

Hybrid LiFi and WiFi networks: A survey

X Wu, MD Soltani, L Zhou, M Safari… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to tackle the rapidly growing number of mobile devices and their expanding
demands for Internet services, network convergence is envisaged to integrate different …

On optimizing VLC networks for downlink multi-user transmission: A survey

M Obeed, AM Salhab, MS Alouini… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evolving explosion in high data rate services and applications will soon require the use
of untapped, abundant unregulated spectrum of the visible light for communications to …

Hybrid RF/VLC systems: A comprehensive survey on network topologies, performance analyses, applications, and future directions

H Abuella, M Elamassie, M Uysal, Z Xu… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communications refer to data transmissions in unguided propagation media
through the use of wireless carriers such as radio frequency (RF) and visible light (VL) …

A review on LiFi network research: Open issues, applications and future directions

R Badeel, SK Subramaniam, ZM Hanapi… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper extensively reviews and analyses Light Fidelity (LiFi), a new technology that uses
light to transmit data as a high-speed wireless connection system from a wide spectrum of …

A review–unguided optical communications: Developments, technology evolution, and challenges

AAB Raj, P Krishnan, U Darusalam, G Kaddoum… - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review paper discusses the complete evolution of free-space optical (FSO)
communication, also known as unguided optical communication (UOC) technologies, all the …

A review of hybrid vlc/rf networks: Features, applications, and future directions

L Bravo Alvarez, S Montejo-Sánchez… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The expectation for communication systems beyond 5G/6G is to provide high reliability, high
throughput, low latency, and high energy efficiency services. The integration between …

Energy-aware hybrid RF-VLC multiband selection in D2D communication: A stochastic multiarmed bandit approach

S Hashima, MM Fouda, S Sakib… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To handle the exponentially growing service expectations from mobile users and circumvent
the band switching slow rate, device-to-device (D2D) communication is receiving much …