FIG. 1. An indoor VLC downlink network.
FIG. 2. Interference graph.
FIG. 3. The AI for the scheduled user in VC5.
FIG. 4. (a) Sum capacity for different priority factors. (b) SFI for different priority factors.
FIG. 5. (a) The scheduling result for time slot 25, without AI. (b) The scheduling result for time slot 25, with AI. (c) Sum capacity.
FIG. 6. (a) Sum capacity for different scheduling schemes. (b) Effective capacity for users 1 to 5. (c) Effective capacity for users 6 to 10.
TABLE 1. User-centric MUS algorithm
TABLE 2. Parameters used in the simulation
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