Three-dimensional Access Point Assignment in Hybrid VLC, mmWave and WiFi Wireless Access Networks : 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020

Zarakovitis, C.C. and Chien, S.F. and Pervaiz, H. and Ni, Q. and Cosmas, J. and Jawad, N. and Kourtis, M.-A. and Koumaras, H. and Anagnostopoulos, T. (2020) Three-dimensional Access Point Assignment in Hybrid VLC, mmWave and WiFi Wireless Access Networks : 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020. In: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2020-06-07, online.

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To improve data speed and reliability, hybrid wireless networks combine two different Radio Access Technologies (RATs), such as Visible Light Communications (VLC), millimetre wave (mmWave), Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE), etc. The Internet of Radio Light (IoRL) is a cutting-edge system paradigm to combine three RATs for taking advantage the vast VLC and mmWave spectrum with the ubiquitous coverage of WiFi. In this respect, this work introduces a new convex optimisation-based solution method to optimise the three-dimensional (3D) Access Point Assignment (APA) problem of the IoRL system under individual user positioning, priority and minimum Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints. We use both the IoRL real-world testbed and large-scale Maltab simulations to evaluate that our solution converges in linear time, and attains higher throughput-vs-fairness trade-off than existing efforts. © 2020 IEEE.

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2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications

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Subjects:

?? access point assignmenthybrid network accessload balancingoptimisation analysissoftware-defined networkcombinesconvex optimizationeconomic and social effectslightlong term evolution (lte)millimeter wavesquality of serviceratsvisible light communicationwir ??

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Faculty of Science and Technology > School of Computing & Communications

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146946

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ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

21 Jun 2021 16:05

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Yes

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Published

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10 Aug 2024 23:12

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https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/146946