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Abstract

In wireless communication systems, a control signal (CS) plays a vital role in managing the connection between transmitters (Txs) and the user equipment (UEs). This work presents CSs for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based on visible light communication (VLC) systems. Moreover, pairing schemes, successive interference cancellation (SIC), and load balancing are considered with the NOMA-VLC technique for enhancing the entire performance. The CSs, which are single tones or can be described as unmodulated signals, are exploited to estimate the channel between Txs and UEs, and to evaluate the amount of interference at each UE. Thus, a controller, which is employed to manage the connections between Txs and UEs, can balance the load between Txs based on the level of interference at each UE. Each Tx is allocated a unique CS, i.e. a single-tone frequency. A power measurement unit (PMU) is utilized at each UE for measuring the power of each CS. Therefore, the controller divides the UEs into small groups based on the feedback signals from the PMU, then each group is connected to one Tx. Besides, CSs are used to find the optimum number of UEs that can be served by each Tx with a particular data rate of 50 Mbps and with an acceptable error probability of 10^-6, by utilizing on-off keying (OOK) modulation scheme.

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