Application of NOMA in Vehicular Visible Light Communication Systems

Abstract: In the context of an increasing interest toward reducing the number of traffic accidents and of associated victims, communication-based vehicle safety applications have emerged as one of the best solutions to enhance road safety. In this area, visible light communications (VLC) have a great potential for applications due to their relatively simple design for basic functioning, efficiency, and large geographical distribution. Vehicular Visible Light Communication (VVLC) is preferred as a vehicle to everything (V2X) communications scheme. Due to its highly secure, low complexity, and radio frequency (RF) interference-free characteristics, exploiting the line of sight (LoS) propagation of visible light and usage of already existing vehicle light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This research is addressing the application of the Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) technique in VLC based Vehicle-to- Vehicle (V2V) communication. The proposed system is simulated in almost realistic conditions and the performance of the system is analyzed under different scenarios.