A Novel Network Architecture for Indoor Optical Wireless Communication

Abstract

© 2019 IEEE. Optical wireless communication is emerging as a potential wireless networking alternative, made possible with the promising developments in the physical layer transmission. While the highspeed optical wireless transceivers have been demonstrated with data rates well over 10 Gbps, other technologies in the form of beam steering, optical localization and modulation/coding are also used to enhance the coverage and reliability of the optical wireless links. Given the ultra-high data rates and the complexity of these transceivers, existing access network architectures and protocols such as passive optical networks or Wi-Fi are not directly applicable to optical wireless communication..