Mansour Abadi, Mojtaba, Hazdra, Pavel, Bohata, Jan, Chvojka, Petr, Haigh, Paul Anthony, Ghassemlooy, Zabih and Zvanovec, Stanislav (2020) A Head/Taillight Featuring Hybrid Planar Visible Light Communications/Millimetre Wave Antenna for Vehicular Communications. IEEE Access, 8. pp. 135722-135729. ISSN 2169-3536
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Abstract
With the emergence of the fifth generation and beyond mobile networks, both visible light communications (VLC) and radio frequency (RF) or millimetre wave (mmW) systems are expected to maintain the connectivity in various environments. In outdoor environments the link (VLC or RF) availability is paramount, which is affected by channel conditions. In particular, in vehicular communications other vehicles, harsh environment, and road geometry and structure will have the impact on the link connectivity and availability. In such cases, a front-end antenna solution, which benefits both optical and RF communication links, can be seen as an attractive option that can be fitted in future vehicles. In this paper, we present the design and practical implementation of a planar hybrid VLC/mmW antenna operating at 20.8 GHz and show measured results for characterization of RF and VLC links as well as communications performance. We have used the widely adopted on-off keying and quadrature amplitude modulation schemes with different orders to demonstrate data rates of 5 Mb/s and up to 100 Mb/s for the VLC and mmW links, respectively. By measuring the bit error rate and the error vector magnitude for VLC and Rf links, respectively for each modulation we have shown that the proposed hybrid planar antenna is suitable for example in a typical vehicle -to-vehicle communications.
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: This work was supported in part by the UKEPSRC under Grant EP/P006280/1: Multifunctional Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes with Visible Light Communications (MARVEL), and in part by the Horizon 2020 MSCITN under Grant 764461 (VISION). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | VLC, mmW, Hybrid VLC/mmW, Hybrid VLC/RF, Hybrid Antenna |
| Subjects: | H600 Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Elena Carlaw |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2020 12:05 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2021 14:30 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/43863 |
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