# Can Balloons Produce Li-Fi? A Disaster Management Perspective

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04687 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.04687/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 13 Dec 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [PDSR: Efficient UAV Deployment for Swift and Accurate Post-Disaster Search and Rescue](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.22982/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Natural calamities and disasters disrupt the conventional communication setups and the wireless bandwidth becomes constrained. A safe and cost-effective solution for communication and data access in such scenarios is long needed. Light-Fidelity (Li-Fi) which promises wireless access to data at high speeds using visible light can be a good option. Visible light being safe to use for wireless access in such affected environments also provides illumination. Importantly, when a Li-Fi unit is attached to an air balloon and a network of such Li-Fi balloons are coordinated to form a Li-Fi balloon network, data can be accessed anytime and anywhere required and hence many lives can be tracked and saved. We propose this idea of a Li-Fi balloon and give an overview of its design using the Philips Li-Fi hardware. Further, we propose the concept of a balloon network and coin it with an acronym, the LiBNet. We consider the balloons to be arranged as a homogeneous Poisson point process in the LiBNet and we derive the mean co-channel interference for such an arrangement.