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Analysis and Simulation of Precoding and User Association for Securing Hybrid RF/VLC Systems
Sao Paulo State Univ UNESP, Brazil; Univ Oulu, Finland; Queens Univ Belfast, North Ireland.
Univ Estadual Campinas, Brazil.
Univ Oulu, Finland.
Linköping University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Communication Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering. Univ Oulu, Finland.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8858-9646
2024 (English)In: IEEE Sensors Journal, ISSN 1530-437X, E-ISSN 1558-1748, Vol. 24, no 20, p. 33467-33480Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

To overcome the limitations of visible light communication (VLC) systems while benefiting from high data rates and inherently secure transmissions, hybrid systems combining radio frequency (RF) and VLC have gained appeal for the next generation of wireless networks and their use cases, including the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor networks. In this article, a theoretical study is carried out to investigate the potential of hybrid systems from the security perspective by proposing a joint precoding and user association (JPUA) scheme to maximize the sum secrecy rate of a multiuser indoor downlink hybrid RF/VLC system. Specifically, it is assumed that the RF access point (AP) is equipped with multiple antennas while the VLC AP is equipped with multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The optimization problem is divided into two subproblems, the user association strategy and the precoding design for each of the APs. For the former, an algorithm based on coalitional game theory is proposed to associate each user (or sensor node) with one of the APs. The latter leads to a nonconvex fractional programming problem, which is reformulated using the constrained convex-concave procedure, thus efficiently converging to an optimal solution. Numerical results based on simulations show that the proposed hybrid RF/VLC scheme provides significant gains in terms of sum secrecy rate, compared with different baseline schemes, such as standalone VLC or RF schemes, in addition to allowing the connection of a greater number of users.

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2024. Vol. 24, no 20, p. 33467-33480
Keywords [en]
Radio frequency; Visible light communication; Precoding; Sensors; Light emitting diodes; Security; Hybrid power systems; Hybrid systems; multiuser; physical layer security (PLS); precoding design; radio frequency communications; sum secrecy rate; user association; visible light communications (VLCs)
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Communication Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-210186DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3449772ISI: 001338604800072OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-210186DiVA, id: diva2:1917767
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Funding Agencies|Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) [420148/2023-0]; Academy of Finland, 6G Flagship Program [346208]; Project FAITH [334280]; Excellence Center at Linkoeping-Lund in Information Technology (ELLIIT) by the Swedish Government

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