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Design of VLC and heterogeneous RF/VLC systems for future generation networks: an algorithmic approach
Visible light communication (VLC) has attracted significant research interest within the
last decade due in part to the vast amount of unused transmission bandwidth in the
visible light spectrum. VLC is expected to be part of future generation networks. The
heterogeneous integration of radio frequency (RF) and VLC systems has been envisioned
as a promising solution to increase the capacity of wireless networks, especially in indoor
environments. However, the promised advantages of VLC and heterogeneous RF/VLC
systems cannot be realized without proper resource management algorithms that exploit
the distinguishing characteristics between RF and VLC systems. Further, the problem of
backhauling for VLC systems has received little attention. This dissertation’s first part
focuses on designing and optimizing VLC and heterogeneous RF/VLC systems. Novel
resource allocation algorithms that optimize the sum-rate and energy efficiency performances
of VLC, hybrid, and aggregated RF/VLC systems while considering practical constraints
like illumination requirements, inter-cell interference, quality-of-service requirements,
and transmit power budgets are proposed. Moreover, a power line communicationbased
backhaul solution for an indoor VLC system is developed, and a backhaul-aware
resource allocation algorithm is proposed. These algorithms are developed by leveraging
tools from fractional programming (i.e., Dinkelbach’s transform and quadratic transform),
the multiplier adjustment method, matching theory, and multi-objective optimization.
The latter part of this dissertation examines the adoption of emerging beyond 5G
technologies, such as intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) and reconfigurable intelligent
surfaces (RISs), to overcome the limitations of VLC systems and boost their performance
gains. Novel system models for IRSs-aided and RISs-aided VLC systems are proposed,
and metaheuristic-based algorithms are developed to optimize the configurations of the
IRSs/RISs and, consequently, the performance of VLC systems. Extensive simulations
reveal that the proposed resource allocation schemes outperform the considered benchmarks
and provide performance close to the optimal solution. Furthermore, the proposed
system models achieve superior performance compared to benchmark system models
Improvement of indoor VLC network downlink scheduling and resource allocation
Indoor visible light communications (VLC) combines illumination and communication by utilizing the high-modulation-speed of LEDs. VLC is anticipated to be complementary to radio frequency communications and an important part of next generation heterogeneous networks. In order to make the maximum use of VLC technology in a networking environment, we need to expand existing research from studies of traditional point-to-point links to encompass scheduling and resource allocation related to multi-user scenarios. This work aims to maximize the downlink throughput of an indoor VLC network, while taking both user fairness and time latency into consideration. Inter-user interference is eliminated by appropriately allocating LEDs to users with the aid of graph theory. A three-term priority factor model is derived and is shown to improve the throughput performance of the network scheduling scheme over those previously reported. Simulations of VLC downlink scheduling have been performed under proportional fairness scheduling principles where our newly formulated priority factor model has been applied. The downlink throughput is improved by 19.6% compared to previous two-term priority models, while achieving similar fairness and latency performance. When the number of users grows larger, the three-term priority model indicates an improvement in Fairness performance compared to two-term priority model scheduling
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Hybrid VLC-RF Networks with Imperfect Channel State Information
The present contribution proposes a general framework for the energy
efficiency analysis of a hybrid visible light communication (VLC) and Radio
Frequency (RF) wireless system, in which both VLC and RF subsystems utilize
nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology. The proposed framework is
based on realistic communication scenarios as it takes into account the
mobility of users, and assumes imperfect channel-state information (CSI). In
this context, tractable closed-form expressions are derived for the
corresponding average sum rate of NOMA-VLC and its orthogonal frequency
division multiple access (OFDMA)-VLC counterparts. It is shown extensively that
incurred CSI errors have a considerable impact on the average energy efficiency
of both NOMA-VLC and OFDMAVLC systems and hence, they should not be neglected
in practical designs and deployments. Interestingly, we further demonstrate
that the average energy efficiency of the hybrid NOMA-VLCRF system outperforms
NOMA-VLC system under imperfect CSI. Respective computer simulations
corroborate the derived analytic results and interesting theoretical and
practical insights are provided, which will be useful in the effective design
and deployment of conventional VLC and hybrid VLC-RF systems
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