Integrated Communication and Positioning for IRS-Assisted LiFi Networks

Juncheng Li; Yifan Huang; Shenjie Huang; Iman Tavakkolnia; Harald Haas; Majid Safari

doi:10.1109/wcnc57260.2024.10570819

Integrated Communication and Positioning for IRS-Assisted LiFi Networks

Juncheng Li, Yifan Huang, Shenjie Huang, Iman Tavakkolnia, Harald Haas, Majid Safari

Electronic And Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Light-fidelity (LiFi) is a networked optical wireless communication (OWC) solution to achieve high-speed mobile communications. To address the misalignment challenges encountered in laser-based LiFi, this study introduces an innovative full-coverage indoor LiFi system with integrated communication and positioning capabilities, leveraging intelligent reflected surfaces (IRSs). By design, the proposed system ensures successful wireless downlink connectivity, irrespective of the user's random location and orientation status. An algorithm is developed to ascertain the optimal deployment of both access points (APs) and IRS layers. Moreover, this study introduces a machine learning (ML)-based OWC positioning approach designed to enhance the accuracy of the user positioning, thereby effectively boosting the performance of the IRS-assisted communication system. Numerical results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed positioning approach over traditional methods in terms of average data rate.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2024 - Proceedings
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350303582
ISBN (Print)	979-8-3503-0359-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/wcnc57260.2024.10570819
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2024
Event	2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) - Dubai, United Arab Emirates Duration: 21 Apr 2024 → 24 Apr 2024

Publication series

Name	IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
ISSN (Print)	1525-3511

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Conference	2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
Country/Territory	United Arab Emirates
City	Dubai
Period	21/04/24 → 24/04/24

Funding

This work was supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant EP/S016570/1 (TOWS).

Keywords

wireless communication
machine learning algorithms
surface emitting lasers
optical fiber networks
light fidelity
mobile communication
downlink

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Li, J, Huang, Y, Huang, S, Tavakkolnia, I, Haas, H & Safari, M 2024, Integrated Communication and Positioning for IRS-Assisted LiFi Networks. in 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2024 - Proceedings. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21/04/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/wcnc57260.2024.10570819

Integrated Communication and Positioning for IRS-Assisted LiFi Networks. / Li, Juncheng; Huang, Yifan; Huang, Shenjie et al.
2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2024 - Proceedings. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2024. (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC).

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Integrated Communication and Positioning for IRS-Assisted LiFi Networks

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