Li-Wi: An upper layer hybrid VLC-WiFi network handover solution

Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo; Elizabeth Eso; Hossein Doroud; Bernhard Siessegger; Zabih Ghassemlooy; Giuseppe Caire; Falko Dressler

doi:10.1016/j.adhoc.2021.102705

Li-Wi: An upper layer hybrid VLC-WiFi network handover solution

Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo^*, Elizabeth Eso, Hossein Doroud, Bernhard Siessegger, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Giuseppe Caire, Falko Dressler

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Abstract

Visible light communications (VLC) as a wireless communication technology complementing the radio frequency-based wireless fidelity (WiFi). The hybrid VLC/WiFi, offers the best of both worlds, which are of particular interested in vehicular VLC (V-VLC) that have not yet been explored yet. In this paper, we propose an upper layer hybrid VLC-WiFi network handover solution known as “Li-Wi” to address the handover issues in V-VLC due to the mobility, shadowing, and obstacles. Li-Wi utilizes the benefits of high data rates and link availability of VLC and WiFi, respectively. It offers robust connectivity with lower handover outage duration (T_hod) and a high network throughput. Based on experimental evaluation results using a small-scale prototype, we demonstrate the advantage of the proposed approach. Our experiments reveal that, in an indoor vehicular network Li-Wi is highly efficient in minimizing (T_hod) to 0.03 and 0.06 s for horizontal and vertical handovers, respectively.

Original language	English
Article number	102705
Number of pages	10
Journal	Ad Hoc Networks
Volume	124
Early online date	16 Oct 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2021.102705
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022

Keywords

Data link layer
Frequency diversity
Horizontal handover
Link aggregation
MPTCP
Outage duration
Transport layer
Vertical handover
Visible light communication

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