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    Channel Estimation and Performance Analysis of a Wide-FOV Visible Light Communication System With Random Receiver Orientation and Location
    (IEEE, 2023-03) Joshi, Sandeep
    A practical visible light communications (VLC) system accounting for the effect of the random orientation and the random location of the photo-detector receiver is considered in this paper. The characterizations of the random orientation of the receiver, modeled as the receiver employing wide field of view (FOV) for data detection, and the random location of the receiver are utilized to derive the statistics for the scenarios in which (i) only the orientation of the receiver is random, (ii) only the location of the receiver is random, and (iii) both the orientation and location of the receiver are random. Furthermore, the receiver structures for a fully coherent VLC system and a VLC system employing the least-squares technique for channel estimation are proposed. Employing the receiver structures, the closed/series-form expressions for the symbol error probabilities are derived for all three scenarios of practical VLC channel models. The numerical results particularly show the crucial role of the ratio of the distance of the location of the receiver from the center of the receiving plane to the distance from the light-emitting diode (LED) to the center of the receiving plane in the performance of all the considered VLC systems.
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    A Survey of Energy and Spectrum Harvesting Technologies and Protocols for Next Generation Wireless Networks
    (IEEE, 2021-04) Bitragunta, Sainath; Chamola, Vinay; Joshi, Sandeep
    Energy harvesting (EH) and spectrum harvesting (SH) are two promising and useful green communication and networking mechanisms for the next-generation wireless networks. While the former techniques exploit ambient energy sources to scavenge energy, the latter exploit the unused or moderately used electromagnetic spectrum. With the advent of cyber-physical systems and the Internet-of-Things (IoT), the presence of tens of billions of low power sensor devices would soon be a reality. These small sensing devices would be present in many systems around us, such as home appliances, telecommunication devices, medical electronics, transport systems, etc. These miniaturized, low-power consuming devices may exploit EH and SH techniques for energy storage and communication. These EH-SH-enabled sensors or low-power nodes need to consume very little energy for sensing and communicating opportunistically. However, several theoretical problems and practical challenges exist in EH-SH communications. In this comprehensive survey paper, we first present the historical background of EH, and SH techniques, and their development over several decades. Specifically, we focus on EH-SH communication technologies and protocols for a wide range of systems and networks. We present a detailed survey of the various harvesting techniques and protocols from recent literature. Finally, we describe exciting open, intra-disciplinary, and inter-disciplinary challenges for further research on EH-SH communication technologies.