Access Point Selection in Li-Fi Cellular Networks with Arbitrary Receiver Orientation

摘要

The cellular Light-Fidelity (Li-Fi) network is considered as a promising approach for high speed indoor data access. The conventional metric, based on which an access point (AP) is selected for each user, is signal strength. This metric offers the best channel quality for each user but does not guarantee the achievable data rate, since the resource of an AP is limited. In this paper, we propose a new metric for AP selection to improve the load balancing among APs by considering both the received signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) and the traffic of AP. The orientation of mobile stations (MS) is also taken into account and its effect on users' performance is evaluated. In reality, receivers have random angles with the coordinate axes. We consider three standard angles similar to those used in mobile devices to model the device orientation. Based on this model, the effect of arbitrary orientation on user's throughput and satisfaction is investigated. Simulation results show that when the orientation of users is considered, the proposed AP selection metric outperforms the conventional metric.