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Adaptive mobile optical wireless systems employing a beam clustering method, diversity detection, and relay nodes

JMHE-4: Optical wireless systems are not impaired by fading and cause no RF interference. In this paper, new optical-wireless relay networking techniques are presented, which offer considerable improvements in signal-to-noise ratios and data transmission rates, enabling multigigabit communication. With Boeing (contact details on request), a partner in the EPSRC TINA project (EP/D076676/2, PI:Elmirghani, £242,999), the technology is being evaluated for in-cabin multimedia applications, where RF interference is a concern and where the high user density enables efficient relaying – this would lead to the world’s first multigigabit in-flight wireless mobile system, which fits the future large-aircraft vision.