Collaborative multibeam transmitter and imaging receiver in realistic environment

In this paper, we propose a collaborative mobile optical wireless (OW) system that employs a collaborative adaptive beam clustering method (CABCM) in conjunction with an imaging receiver. Collaborative maximum ratio combining (MRC_Coll) scheme is used to collaboratively distribute the transmit power among diffusing spots. The main goal is to increase the received optical power and improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at each coexisting receiver when the system operates in a multiuser scenario under the constraints of background noise, multipath dispersion and mobility. Our proposed system (collaborative adaptive beam clustering method) is evaluated at 30 Mbit/s to enable comparison with previous work, and is also assessed at higher bit rates: 2.5 Gbit/s and 5 Gbit/s. Simulation results show that at a bit rate of 30 Mbit/s, a significant SNR improvement of 39 dB is achieved when a CABCM system replaces a multiuser line strip multibeam system (LSMS) at a 6 m transmitter-receiver horizontal separation. The results also show that the proposed system can achieve a 22 dB SNR when the system operates at 2.5 Gbit/s in a two-user scenario.