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This paper investigates the performance of half-duplex (HD) conventional DF relay system and cooperative systems (i.e., selective DF (SDF) and incremental DF (IDF)) over VLC channels in terms of outage probability and energy consumption. Analytical expressions for both outage probability and the minimum energy-per-bit performance of the aforementioned relaying systems are derived. Furthermore, Monte Carlo simulations are provided throughout the paper to validate the derived expressions. The results show that exploiting SDF and IDF relaying schemes can achieve approximately 25% and 15% outage probability enhancement compared to single-hop and DF protocols, respectively. The results also demonstrate that the performance of the single-hop VLC system deteriorates when the end-to-end distances become larger. For example, when the vertical distance is 3.5m, the single-hop approach consumes 20%, 40% and 45% more energy in comparison to the DF, SDF, and IDF approaches, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20133660","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,30]],"date-time":"2020-06-30T09:36:04Z","timestamp":1593509764000},"page":"3660","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Performance Analysis of Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Relaying over VLC Channels"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8617-296X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Waled","family":"Gheth","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BH, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9784-3703","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Khaled M.","family":"Rabie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BH, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9071-9120","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bamidele","family":"Adebisi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BH, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0050-9435","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Ijaz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BH, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Georgina","family":"Harris","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1109\/JPHOT.2017.2708746","article-title":"Cooperative Visible Light Communications With Full-Duplex Relaying","volume":"9","author":"Narmanlioglu","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Photonics J."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"40","DOI":"10.1109\/CC.2014.6825257","article-title":"A high-speed bi-directional visible light communication system based on RGB-LED","volume":"11","author":"Yuanquan","year":"2014","journal-title":"Chin. 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