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Title Testing Off-the-Shelf Optical Wireless LANs for Smart City Environments
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Authors Pescosolido, L; Ancillotti, E; Passarella, A
Title Testing Off-the-Shelf Optical Wireless LANs for Smart City Environments
Year 2021
Published Sensors, 21, 16
DOI 10.3390/s21165451
Abstract Optical wireless LANs (OWLs) constitute an emerging networking paradigm for indoor scenarios' fit to different smart cities' fields of applications. Commercial products employing this technology have been made available on the market in recent years. In this work, we investigate, through a set of indoor communication experiments based on commercially available products, how different environmental and usage modes affect the performance of the system, addressing the presence of multiple users, the position and mobility of the mobile devices, the handover among adjacent cells and the effect of background lighting. Our finding shows that the system is quite robust with respect to the variation of operational conditions. We show that, in most conditions, the links can reliably sustain a stable throughput, achieving at least 50% of the throughput achieved with using the maximum light intensity of the transmitting lamp, while they are affected in a very mild way by factors like position and height of the mobile device, and virtually unaffected by variations in the background light.
Author Keywords LiFi; IR; VLC; optical wireless LAN; smart cities; smart home
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000689910300001
WoS Category Chemistry, Analytical; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Instruments & Instrumentation
Research Area Chemistry; Engineering; Instruments & Instrumentation
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/16/5451/pdf?version=1628838831
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