In recent years, LiFi has become increasingly pop-ular as an indoor communication technology that utilizes the unlicensed visible light and infra-red spectrum to transmit data. A major challenge of utilizing LiFi is that its area of coverage is limited. Thus, a large number of LiFi access points (APs) is often complemented by deploying a WiFi AP to form a hybrid WiFilLiFi network. However, such deployment does not lead to any additional improvement in the performance of WiFi or LiFi APs. Recent WiFi APs are known to have high overhead due to the requirement of channel state information (CSI), which is essential for utilizing spatial multiplexing. Thus, in this work, we propose a system called WiLiConnect (WiFi-LiFi Connectivity with CSI), which communicates the CSI requirement of the WiFi channel through the LiFi APs, thereby reducing the overhead of WiFi APs. We formulate this problem of load-balancing the overhead of CSI sharing across the LiFi APs, and show that the general problem is NP-Hard. We then propose a round-robin algorithm to solve a special case of the problem, where all the users are assumed to have a single antenna. We further utilize extensive simulation to show that WiLiConnect significantly reduces the overhead of sending CSI. Specifically, WiLiConnect incurs only 0.06% overhead on a WiFi AP having 8 antennas on the total sum rate.


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    Title :

    WiLiConnect: A Novel CSI Sharing Technique in Hybrid WiFi/LiFi Networks




    Publication date :

    2024-06-24


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    801113 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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