Dynamic load balancing for hybrid Li-Fi and RF indoor networks

2015 IEEE International Conference on Communication Workshop, ICCW 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1422-1427

  Wang, Yunlu ^a   Basnayaka, Dushyantha A ^a   Haas, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dynamic load balancing; handover overhead; Li Fi; outage; RF

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC LOADS; MILLIMETER WAVES; OUTAGES;

DATA THROUGHPUT; DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHMS; HANDOVER; HYBRID NETWORK; INDOOR NETWORKS; OPTIMUM THRESHOLD; OUTAGE PERFORMANCE; OUTAGE PROBABILITY;

VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84947743488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2015.7247378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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