Cascaded Multiwire-PLC/Multiple-VLC System: Characterization and Performance

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel cascaded multiwire-PLC/VLC system with analytical performance metrics validated by simulations, demonstrating its potential for smart, green, and industrial communication networks.

Contribution

It presents original analytical expressions for key performance metrics of a hybrid PLC/VLC system, validated through simulations, highlighting its practical feasibility and broad application potential.

Findings

Analytical expressions for outage probability, bit error rate, and channel capacity.

Validation of analytical results with Monte Carlo simulations.

Demonstrated system feasibility for various practical applications.

Abstract

This paper proposes a cascaded multiwire-power line communication (PLC)/multiple-visible light communication (VLC) system. This hybrid architecture offers low installation cost, enhanced performance, practical feasibility, and a wide range of applications. Novel analytical expressions are derived for key statistics and outage probability, bit error probability, and ergodic channel capacity metrics. Furthermore, the analytical results are validated through Monte Carlo simulations, with several performance curves presented under various channel and PLC/VLC system parameters. All expressions derived in this work are original and have not been previously published. Our proposed system proves feasible for smart environments, green communication systems, internet of things networks, industrial environments, and next-generation networks.