Optimization of Indoor Hybrid PLC/VLC/RF Communication Systems

In this study, the authors propose a hybrid power line communication (PLC)/visible light communication (VLC)/radio frequency (RF) fronthaul with a fibre-based wired backhaul system to support massive number of smart devices (SDs). Since a signal-to-noise ratio-based access point (AP) association and bandwidth (BW) allocation for each SD do not necessarily improve the system capacity, they propose ...