Experimental 5G New Radio integration with VLC

Lina Shi , Wei Li (1) , Xun Zhang , Yue Zhang (2) , Gaojie Chen (3) , Andrei Vladimirescu (4)

1 School of Computer Science and Engineering [Beijing]
2 Department of Math and Computer Science
3 School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
4 ISEP - Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris

In this paper, integration of 5G New Radio (5G NR) with a Visible Light Communication (VLC) downlink architecture is proposed. This scheme combines two complementary wireless technologies: upcoming 5G NR and VLC to offer indoor enhanced wireless hybrid access able to provide each User Equipment (UE) with very high data rate and positioning support. The data transmission of the 5G NR frame over VLC has been implemented. This represents a novel approach to transmitting 5G NR over VLC by hardware experimentation based on Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP). The experiment results show that the proposed scheme with Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) mapping achieves a data rate of 14.4 M bits/s and an Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) of 4.78% for a 55 cm free space transmission span.

Mots clés: 5G New Radio; Visible Light Communication; Software Defined Networks; USRP

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Lina Shi, Wei Li, Xun Zhang, Yue Zhang, Gaojie Chen, et al.. Experimental 5G New Radio integration with VLC. 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Dec 2018, Bordeaux, France. pp.61-64, ⟨10.1109/ICECS.2018.8617851⟩. ⟨hal-02333638⟩