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MAC layer performance of the IEEE 802.15.7 visible light communication standard
Author(s) -
Shams Parvaneh,
ErolKantarci Melike,
Uysal Murat
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 2161-3915
DOI - 10.1002/ett.3015
Subject(s) - visible light communication , computer science , media access control , computer network , network allocation vector , wireless , throughput , physical layer , network packet , broadband , bandwidth (computing) , access control , inter access point protocol , wireless broadband , random access , transmission (telecommunications) , multiple access with collision avoidance for wireless , phy , ieee 802.11 , telecommunications , wireless network , wi fi , engineering , electrical engineering , wi fi array , light emitting diode
Visible light communications (VLC) is a high‐speed wireless communication technology that has recently emerged. VLC uses the illumination infrastructure to meet broadband needs of bandwidth‐hungry devices. Its high data rate, immunity to electromagnetic interference, ability to operate in an unlicensed band and high reuse factor position VLC as a strong alternative to existing communication technologies. The physical and medium access control (MAC) layers of VLC have been standardised in IEEE 802.15.7. Yet, theoretical performance bounds of the MAC layer have not been explored in detail so far. In this paper, we derive Markov‐based performance bounds for the MAC layer of IEEE 802.15.7. We provide a thorough study of throughput, delay, power consumption, collision probability, transmission probability, access probability and packet discard probability using analytical analysis and simulations. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.