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Adaptive User Association for Dense Visible Light Communication Networks in the Presence of Nonlinear Impairments

Miao, P; Chen, G; Yao, Y; Wong, KK; Chambers, JA; (2024) Adaptive User Association for Dense Visible Light Communication Networks in the Presence of Nonlinear Impairments. IEEE Transactions on Communications 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3367785. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

User-centric (UC) philosophy is a promising network formation method in light emitting diode enabled visible light communication (VLC) systems. Nevertheless, the nonlinear channel impairments restrict the overall system performance and have not been fully considered in the association structure designing. In this paper, an adaptive user association approach within the UC-cells formation of dense VLC networks is investigated under the consideration of practical nonlinear impairments and adjacent interference. It is mathematically formulated to be an achievable data rate maximization problem by coordinately determining the optimal candidates of access point, clipping ratio and information-carrying power. We divide this mixed combinatorial and non-convex optimization problem into two subproblems and delicately transform them to be binary nonlinear programming and constrained linear programming problems, respectively. In addition, we develop an efficient approach to obtain the local optimal solution with low-computational complexity in an alternating iterative way. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme has relatively fast convergence and shows robustness to the variation of complex interference patterns and nonlinear impairments. Moreover, it can achieve significant throughput gain as compared with the conventional schemes, demonstrating the prospect and validity of this methodology for dense VLC networks with actual nonlinear devices.

Type: Article
Title: Adaptive User Association for Dense Visible Light Communication Networks in the Presence of Nonlinear Impairments
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3367785
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2024.3367785
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Visible light communication , Resource management , Light emitting diodes , Interference , Integrated circuits , Optimization , Nonlinear distortion
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189916
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