Energy Efficient Laser-Based Optical Wireless Communication Networks

TY - CONF

T1 - Energy Efficient Laser-Based Optical Wireless Communication Networks

AU - Ncube, Walter Zibusiso

AU - Adnan Qidan, Ahmad

AU - El-Gorashi, Taisir

AU - Elmirghani, Jaafar M.H.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 IEEE.

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Rising data demands are a growing concern globally. The task at hand is to evolve current communication networks to support enhanced data rates while maintaining low latency, energy consumption and costs. To meet the above challenge, Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) technology is proposed as a solution to complement traditional Radio Frequency (RF) based communication systems. Recently, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELS) have been considered for data transmission in OWC indoor environments due to their ability to transmit power through narrow, near-circular beams to receivers. In this paper, we study the energy efficiency of a VCSEL-based OWC system in an indoor environment and compare it to that of a Light Emitting Diode (LED) based system. The main findings show that the VCSEL system performs better and has higher energy efficiency.

AB - Rising data demands are a growing concern globally. The task at hand is to evolve current communication networks to support enhanced data rates while maintaining low latency, energy consumption and costs. To meet the above challenge, Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) technology is proposed as a solution to complement traditional Radio Frequency (RF) based communication systems. Recently, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELS) have been considered for data transmission in OWC indoor environments due to their ability to transmit power through narrow, near-circular beams to receivers. In this paper, we study the energy efficiency of a VCSEL-based OWC system in an indoor environment and compare it to that of a Light Emitting Diode (LED) based system. The main findings show that the VCSEL system performs better and has higher energy efficiency.

KW - consumption factor

KW - energy efficiency

KW - interference management

KW - optical wireless communication networks

KW - vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

KW - zero forcing

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85169459177

U2 - 10.1109/ICTON59386.2023.10207538

DO - 10.1109/ICTON59386.2023.10207538

M3 - Paper

AN - SCOPUS:85169459177

T2 - 23rd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2023

Y2 - 2 July 2023 through 6 July 2023

ER -