Secure Hybrid VLC-RF Systems with Light Energy Harvesting

Gaofeng Pan, Jia Ye, Zhiguo Ding

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Abstract

In this paper, a hybrid visible light communication-radio frequency (RF) system, including a legitimate receiver (R) and an eavesdropper (E) is considered. R can harvest energy from the light emitted by light emitting diodes (LEDs), which is used for the information transmission between R and the RF receiver which is close to the LED. It is assumed that E tries to eavesdrop the information delivered from R to the RF receiver and R is with finite energy storage. Considering the randomness of the locations of R and E, the statistical characteristics of the received signal-To-noise ratio at the RF receiver and E are characterized; then, we derive the analytical expressions for exact and asymptotic secrecy outage probability by using the stochastic geometry method. Finally, simulations are carried out to verify our proposed analytical models.

Original languageBritish English
Article number7935472
Pages (from-to)4348-4359
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume65
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2017

Keywords

  • Light energy harvesting
  • Rician fading
  • secrecy outage probability
  • stochastic geometry
  • visible light communication

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