TY - CONF

T1 - Three-dimensional Access Point Assignment in Hybrid VLC, mmWave and WiFi Wireless Access Networks

T2 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications

AU - Zarakovitis, C.C.

AU - Chien, S.F.

AU - Pervaiz, H.

AU - Ni, Q.

AU - Cosmas, J.

AU - Jawad, N.

AU - Kourtis, M.-A.

AU - Koumaras, H.

AU - Anagnostopoulos, T.

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PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Access point assignment

KW - hybrid network access

KW - load balancing

KW - optimisation analysis

KW - software-defined network

KW - Combines

KW - Convex optimization

KW - Economic and social effects

KW - Light

KW - Long Term Evolution (LTE)

KW - Millimeter waves

KW - Quality of service

KW - Rats

KW - Visible light communication

KW - Wireless local area networks (WLAN)

KW - Cutting-edge systems

KW - Hybrid wireless networks

KW - Quality of Service constraints

KW - Radio access technologies

KW - Threedimensional (3-d)

KW - Visible light communications (VLC)

KW - Wireless access networks

KW - Wi-Fi

U2 - 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9148722

DO - 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9148722

M3 - Conference paper

Y2 - 7 June 2020

ER -