Impact of Device Orientation on Error Performance of LiFi Systems

Most studies on optical wireless communications (OWCs) have neglected the effect of random orientation in their performance analysis due to the lack of a proper model for the random orientation. Our recent empirical-based research illustrates that the random orientation follows a Laplace distribution for static user equipment (UE). In this paper, we analyze the device orientation and assess its importance on system performance. The probability of establishing a line-of-sight link is investigated and the probability density function (PDF) of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for a randomly-oriented device is derived. By means of the PDF of SNR, the bit-error ratio (BER) of DC biased optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels is evaluated. A closed form approximation for the BER of UE with random orientation is presented which shows a good match with Monte-Carlo simulation results.

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