TY - JOUR
T1 - ELIoT: enhancing LiFi for next-generation Internet of things
AU - Linnartz, J.P.
AU - Ribeiro Barbio Correa, Carina
AU - Bitencourt Cunha, Thiago
AU - Tangdiongga, Eduward
AU - Koonen, A.M.J.
AU - Deng, Xiong
AU - Abbo, Anteneh A.
AU - Polak, Piotr
AU - Müller, Marcel
AU - Behnke, Daniel
AU - Vicent Colonques, Santi
AU - Metin, Taner
AU - Emmelmann, Marc
AU - Kouhini, Sepideh Mohammadi
AU - Bober, Kai Lennert
AU - Kottke, Christoph
AU - Jugnickel, Volker
PY - 2022/9/22
Y1 - 2022/9/22
N2 - Communication for the Internet of things (IoT) currently is predominantly narrowband and cannot always guarantee low latency and high reliability. Future IoT applications such as flexible manufacturing, augmented reality and self-driving vehicles rely on sophisticated real-time processing in the cloud to which mobile IoT devices are connected. High-capacity links that meet the requirements of the upcoming 6G systems cannot easily be provided by the current radio-based communication infrastructure. Light communication, which is also denoted as LiFi, offers huge amounts of spectrum, extra security and low-latency transmission free of interference even in dense reuse settings. We present the current state-of-the-art of LiFi systems and introduce new features needed for future IoT applications. We discuss results from a distributed multiple-input multiple-output topology with a fronthaul using plastic optical fibre. We evaluate seamless mobility between the light access points and also handovers to 5G, besides low-power transmission and integrated positioning. Future LiFi development, implementation and efforts towards standardization are addressed in the EU ELIoT project which is presented here.
AB - Communication for the Internet of things (IoT) currently is predominantly narrowband and cannot always guarantee low latency and high reliability. Future IoT applications such as flexible manufacturing, augmented reality and self-driving vehicles rely on sophisticated real-time processing in the cloud to which mobile IoT devices are connected. High-capacity links that meet the requirements of the upcoming 6G systems cannot easily be provided by the current radio-based communication infrastructure. Light communication, which is also denoted as LiFi, offers huge amounts of spectrum, extra security and low-latency transmission free of interference even in dense reuse settings. We present the current state-of-the-art of LiFi systems and introduce new features needed for future IoT applications. We discuss results from a distributed multiple-input multiple-output topology with a fronthaul using plastic optical fibre. We evaluate seamless mobility between the light access points and also handovers to 5G, besides low-power transmission and integrated positioning. Future LiFi development, implementation and efforts towards standardization are addressed in the EU ELIoT project which is presented here.
KW - Future IoT
KW - IEEE 802.11bb
KW - ITU-T G.vlc
KW - LiFi
KW - Light communication
KW - Optical wireless communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138707492&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s13638-022-02168-6
DO - 10.1186/s13638-022-02168-6
M3 - Article
SN - 1687-1499
VL - 2022
JO - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
JF - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
IS - 1
M1 - 89
ER -