Title
NOMA for Energy-Efficient LiFi-Enabled Bidirectional IoT Communication
Abstract
In this paper, we consider a light fidelity (LiFi)-enabled bidirectional Internet of Things (IoT) communication system, where visible light and infrared light are used in the downlink and uplink, respectively. In order to efficiently improve the energy efficiency (EE) of the bidirectional LiFi-IoT system, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with a quality-of-service (QoS)-guaranteed optimal power allocation (OPA) strategy is applied to maximize the EE of both downlink and uplink channels. We derive closed-form OPA sets based on the identification of the optimal decoding orders in both downlink and uplink channels, which can enable low-complexity power allocation. Moreover, we propose an adaptive channel and QoS-based user pairing approach by jointly considering users' channel gains and QoS requirements. We further analyze the EE and the user outage probability (UOP) performance of both downlink and uplink channels in the bidirectional LiFi-IoT system. Extensive analytical and simulation results demonstrate the superiority of NOMA with OPA in comparison to orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and NOMA with typical channel-based power allocation strategies. It is also shown that the proposed adaptive channel and QoS-based user pairing approach greatly outperforms individual channel/QoS-based approaches, especially when users have diverse QoS requirements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3051912
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA),light fidelity (LiFi),Internet of Things (IoT),energy efficiency (EE),user outage probability (UOP)
Journal
69
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0090-6778
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chen Chen1367.74
Shu Fu21038.98
Xin Jian3214.64
Min Liu4123.54
Xiong Deng5279.29
Zhiguo Ding67031399.47