Dear Editor,
Thank you for handling the process of our manuscript (VT-2019-03538). We would also like
to thank the two reviewers for their detailed comments on our work which helped us improving
the quality of
this manuscript. Then, Unfortunately, you give comments:” After careful
consideration of the reviewers' comments, the decision has been made not to publish this paper in
the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Please note that we do not accept submissions of
a revised manuscript based on this rejected paper.” we cannot accept this result. we hope the
reasons will change your mind and give us a second opportunity.
Firstly, the first reviewer's opinion tended to be negative. However, it only cited some
problems in the article, and did not give an opinion of rejection, the most opinions given by him
can be modified and improved. While the opinion of the second reviewer was clearly positive. It
shows that the reviewers agree with the innovation and contribution of the article, there are still
some minor issues. But we all have the opportunity and ability to modify.
Second, for this comment “The innovation and contribution are not significant enough to be a
Transaction paper”. We argue that this paper has enough contribution and novelty. In order to
illustrate the contribution and novelty of this paper, we survey the existing works of VLC/RF, in
the following: We found that a few researchers studied the mixed VLC/RF communication
systems. they assumed that eavesdropper only exists in the RF link and the PLS for the VLC link
was not considered. However, the security problem in VLC systems is still a risk due to the
broadcast characteristics. Motivated by the above background, we consider the PLS for the mixed
RF/VLC relaying systems where eavesdropping happens in both VLC and RF links. Furthermore,
we assume that the direct links from the source to the legitimate user and the eavesdropper are not
blocked. We discuss the PLS performance of existing Mixed RF/VLC Cooperative Relaying
Systems. What is more, optical wireless communication with EH has not been studying well. In
our paper, the cooperative relay has the energy collection ability and can extract the direct current
part existing in the visible-light signal. Then, the relay uses the collected energy to demodulate the
received visible-light signal and retransmit it through the radio frequency link. Following that, the
contribution and novelty of this paper is illustrated.
Based on those two reasons above, we believe that the results are of merit and the paper is
potentially publishable in the journal. We would be most grateful if you could reconsider our work
and give us a second opportunity. Thank you very much for your patience and understanding.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
With best regards, Yours sincerely,