Genovés Guzmán, BorjaDowhuszko, Alexis A.Gil Jiménez, Víctor PedroPérez Neira, Ana I.2021-05-182021-05-182018-01-15Genoves Guzman, B., Dowhuszko, A. A., Gil Jimenez, V. P. & Perez-Neira, A. I. (2018). Robust Cooperative Multicarrier Transmission Scheme for Optical Wireless Cellular Networks. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 30(2), pp. 197–200.1041-1135https://hdl.handle.net/10016/32664Visible light communication (VLC) is a promising technology to achieve high data rates in heterogeneous scenarios. However, VLC strongly depends on the existence of a line-of-sight (LoS) link between transmitter and receiver to guarantee a good data rate performance, which is often a condition that is difficult to satisfy in practice. In this letter, a novel cooperative multicarrier transmission scheme is proposed, where neighboring attocells smartly cooperate to decrease the probability of blockage in the LoS link. This approach is compared to single-cell transmission schemes, obtaining notable gains in both received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio and cell data rate when blockage of the LoS link occurs toward the nearest base station.4eng© 2018, IEEECooperative transmissionCO-channel interferenceFrequency reuseJoint transmissionLoS blockageMacro-diversityVisible light communicationresearch articleTelecomunicacioneshttps://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2017.2781184open access1972200IEEE Photonics Technology Letters30AR/0000020905