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Multi-Hop Wireless Optical Backhauling for LiFi Attocell Networks: Bandwidth Scheduling and Power Control

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The backhaul of hundreds of light fidelity (LiFi) base stations (BSs) constitutes a major challenge. Indoor wireless optical backhauling is a novel approach whereby the interconnections between adjacent LiFi BSs are provided by way of directed line-of-sight (LOS) wireless infrared (IR) links. Building on the aforesaid approach, this paper presents the top-down design of a multi-hop wireless backhaul configuration for multi-tier optical attocell networks by proposing the novel idea of super cells. Such cells incorporate multiple clusters of attocells that are connected to the core network via a single gateway based on multi-hop decode-and-forward (DF) relaying. Consequently, new challenges arise for managing the bandwidth and power resources of the bottleneck backhaul. By putting forward user-based bandwidth scheduling (UBS) and cell-based bandwidth scheduling (CBS) policies, the system-level modeling and analysis of the end-to-end multi-user sum rate is elaborated. In addition, optimal bandwidth scheduling under both UBS and CBS policies are formulated as constrained convex optimization problems, which are solved by using the projected subgradient method. Furthermore, the transmission power of the backhaul system is opportunistically reduced by way of an innovative fixed power control (FPC) strategy. The notion of backhaul bottleneck occurrence (BBO) is introduced. An accurate approximate expression of the probability of BBO is derived, and then verified using Monte Carlo simulations. Several insights are provided into the offered gains of the proposed schemes through extensive computer simulations, by studying different aspects of the performance of super cells including the average sum rate, the BBO probability and the backhaul power efficiency (PE).

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Hossein Kazemi, Majid Safari, Harald Haas. 2019-07-12. Multi-Hop Wireless Optical Backhauling for LiFi Attocell Networks: Bandwidth Scheduling and Power Control. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05967

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