Abstract
In this letter, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted dual-hop visible light communication (VLC)/radio frequency (RF) system in indoor scenarios is proposed, in which the first link is a VLC link while an RIS is deployed in the second RF link. More specifically, a relay first converts the received optical signal into the RF signal blue using either decode-and-forward or amplify-and-forward protocols and then forwards it to the RIS. The RIS alters the electromagnetic response of the impinging waves to provide connectivity between the RF destination and optical source. Based on this model, closed-form expressions for the outage probability and bit error rate (BER) are derived. Also, an asymptotic analysis for the outage probability is presented. Finally, simulation results are provided to verify our analytical results.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 9145652 |
Pages (from-to) | 1995-1999 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received June 13, 2020; revised July 10, 2020; accepted July 17, 2020. Date of publication July 21, 2020; date of current version November 9, 2020. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant 61671160; in part by the Department of Education of Guangdong Province under Grant 2016KZDXM050; in part by the Hunan Natural Science Foundation under Grant 2019JJ40043; in part by the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou under Grant 201904010249; and in part by the Science and Technology Program of Changsha under Grant kq1907112. The associate editor coordinating the review of this article and approving it for publication was Y. Zhu. (Corresponding author: Liang Yang.) Liang Yang and Xiaoqin Yan are with the College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China (e-mail: liangy@hnu.edu.cn; yxq@hnu.edu.cn).
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Keywords
- Bit error rate (BER)
- outage probability
- reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)
- visible light communication/radio frequency (VLC/RF) system
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering