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20192025
most citedRe-configurable Intelligent Surface-based VLC Receivers Using Tunable Liquid-crystals: The Concept

100 citations · 143 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

eess.SP2025

Underwater Multi-Wavelength Optical Links With Blue Targets and Constraints: Opportunities and Challenges

Alain R. Ndjiongue, Octavia A. Dobre, Hyundong Shin +1

Underwater optical wireless technologies offer multiple advantages over the acoustic technology. Acoustic signals, for instance, are susceptible to noise from marine sources due to…

eess.SP2024

Maximal Transmission Rate in Omni-DRIS-Assisted Indoor Visible Light Communication Systems

Alain R. Ndjiongue, Octavia A. Dobre, Hyundong Shin

Given the importance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in next-generation mobile systems, several RIS variants have been proposed in recent years. Omni-digital-RIS (omn…

eess.SP2023★ 1 cited

Liquid Crystal-Based RIS for VLC Transmitters: Performance Analysis, Challenges, and Opportunities

Sylvester Aboagye, Telex M. N. Ngatched, Alain R. Ndjiongue +2

This article presents a novel approach of using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in the transmitter of indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems to enhance data ra…

eess.SP2022★ 12 cited

RIS-Assisted Visible Light Communication Systems: A Tutorial

Sylvester Aboagye, Alain R. Ndjiongue, Telex M. N. Ngatched +2

Recent development of the fifth-generation (5G) of cellular networks has led to their deployment worldwide. As part of the implementation, one of the challenges that must be addres…

cs.IT2022★ 4 cited

Double-Sided Beamforming in OWC Systems Using Omni-Digital Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Alain R. Ndjiongue, Telex M. N. Ngatched, Octavia A. Dobre +1

In this paper, we introduce a variant of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) called omni-digital-RISs (DRISs), which allow multiple physical processes, with application to o…

eess.SP2021

Digital RIS (DRIS): The Future of Digital Beam Management in RIS-Assisted OWC Systems

Alain R. Ndjiongue, Telex M. N. Ngatched, Octavia A. Dobre +1

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have been recently introduced to optical wireless communication (OWC) networks to resolve skip areas and improve the signal-to-noise ratio…

eess.SP2021★ 2 cited

Design of a Power Amplifying-RIS for Free-Space Optical Communication Systems

Alain R. Ndjiongue, Telex M. N. Ngatched, Octavia A. Dobre +1

The steering dynamics of re-configurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have hoisted them to the front row of technologies that can be exploited to solve skip-zones in wireless communi…

eess.SP2021★ 15 cited

Performance Analysis of RIS-Based nT-FSO Link Over G-G Turbulence With Pointing Errors

Alain R. Ndjiongue, Telex M. N. Ngatched, Octavia A. Dobre +2

One of the main problems faced by communication systems is the presence of skip-zones in the targeted areas. With the deployment of the fifth-generation mobile network, solutions a…

eess.SP2021★ 100 cited

Re-configurable Intelligent Surface-based VLC Receivers Using Tunable Liquid-crystals: The Concept

Alain R. Ndjiongue, Telex M. N. Ngatched, Octavia A. Dobre +1

Visible light communication (VLC) enables access to huge unlicensed bandwidth, a higher security level, and no radio frequency interference. With these advantages, VLC emerges as a…

eess.SP2020★ 9 cited

Towards the Use of Re-configurable Intelligent Surfaces in VLC Systems: Beam Steering

Alain R. Ndjiongue, Telex M. N. Ngatched, Octavia A. Dobre +1

The emergence of visible light communication (VLC) technology as a solution to solve radio frequency impediments, such as spectrum shortage, is continuously appealing. In addition…

eess.SP2019

VLC-Based Networking: Feasibility and Challenges

Alain R. Ndjiongue, Telex M. N. Ngatched, Octavia A. Dobre +1

Visible-light communication (VLC) has emerged as a prominent technology to address the radio spectrum shortage. It is characterized by the unlicensed and unexploited high bandwidth…