Throughput-Optimal Link-Layer Design in Power Constrained Hybrid OW/RF Systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1972-1984

  Chatzidiamantis, Nestor D ^a   Georgiadis, Leonidas ^a   Sandalidis, Harilaos G ^b   Karagiannidis, George K ^a,c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Hybrid optical wireless radio frequency systems; link layer design; Lyapunov optimization; power constraints; reduced feedback coding.; throughput maximization

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FEEDBACK; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING THEORY; THROUGHPUT; TRANSMITTERS;

FREQUENCY SYSTEM; LINK LAYERS; POWER CONSTRAINTS; REDUCED FEEDBACKS; THROUGHPUT MAXIMIZATION;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84940056691     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2015.2432512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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