Resource Allocation on Energy Efficiency for Aggregated VLC-RF System with OIRS

Abstract

Motivated by the ability of optical intelligent reflective surface (OIRS) to alter optical channels, the effectiveness of OIRS on aggregated visible light communication (VLC)-radio frequency (RF) systems is explored, and the system model is established in detail. With the aim of improving the energy efficiency (EE) of the aggregated system with OIRS, the EE maximization problem is formulated with diverse constraints, followed by the proposed block coordinate descent (BCD)-based resource allocation algorithm. Particularly, the EE maximization problem is partitioned into two subproblems, which are OIRS configuration and joint power allocation, and then are solved in the iteration process. Additionally, the substantial enhancement in EE brought by OIRS for the aggregated VLC-RF system, as well as the convergence and efficacy of the proposed BCD-based algorithm are demonstrated by comprehensive simulation results.