abstract

• Visible Light Communications networks are usually based on isolated access points which deals individually with the handover strategy. Basically when a node is detected by an access point the network’s protocol upper layers redirect the traffic to the new access point. This strategy cannot be suitable for vehicle communications and different alternatives of handover should be developed. In this paper, a new network architecture is presented including a novel handover scheme based on distributed receivers. This system has been tested for vehicle to infrastructure applications in a tunnel scenario and results show that, in comparison with classical scheme, it demonstrates an upgrade in general performance. © 2021 IEEE

authors

• Torres-Zapata E.

publication date

• 2021-01-01

funding provided via

• Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, H2020: 764461  Grant

published in

• Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems  Proceedings

keywords

• Handover; MAC layer; Network topology; Vehicular communication; VLC Network architecture; Network layers; Vehicle to vehicle communications; Visible light communication; Access points; Communications networks; Hand over; MAC layer; Network topology; Network topology designs; Seamless communication; Urban tunnel; Vehicular communications; VLC; Topology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/ISWCS49558.2021.9562145

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volume

• 2021-September

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