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Energy Management in Wireless Cellular and Ad-hoc Networks pp 299–317Cite as

Visible Light Communications for Energy Efficient Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

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Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 50))

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The necessity of having energy efficient wireless communication networks emerges because of the related environmental and economical benefits. Achieving energy efficient wireless communications using visible light communications (VLC) has been recently studied due to its transmission properties. Moreover, the integration of VLC and radio frequency (RF)-based wireless networks has shown improved data rate and reliability for the mobile users. In this chapter, we investigate the energy efficiency of the integration of VLC and RF wireless networks. We formulate and solve the energy efficiency maximization problem by allocating the power and bandwidth of a heterogenous RF/VLC wireless network. We study the impact of various system parameters on the network performance. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the performance gains of the hybrid system and to quantify the impact of the system specifications on the achieved energy efficiency. Moreover, several challenging issues due to the RF/VLC integration are addressed.

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This publication was made possible by the NPRP award [NPRP 5 -980-2-411] from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of The Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the author[s].

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A & M University at Qatar, P.O. Box No. 23874, Education City, Doha, Qatar

    Mohamed Kashef, Muhammad Ismail, Mohamed Abdallah & Khalid A. Qaraqe

  2. Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt

    Mohamed Abdallah

  3. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, USA

    Erchin Serpedin

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Kashef, M., Ismail, M., Abdallah, M., A. Qaraqe, K., Serpedin, E. (2016). Visible Light Communications for Energy Efficient Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. In: Shakir, M.Z., Imran, M.A., A. Qaraqe, K., Alouini, MS., V. Vasilakos, A. (eds) Energy Management in Wireless Cellular and Ad-hoc Networks. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 50. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27568-0_13

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