Load Balancing Performance Optimization for LI-Fi/Wi-Fi HLR Access Points Using Particle Swarm Optimization and DL Algorithms

Abstract

The increasing number of mobile devices challenges the current radio frequency (RF) networks. A hybrid RF/VLC network (HLRN) is proposed to mitigate the spatial fluctuation of data rate, offering a system throughput greater than that of standalone visible light communications (VLC) or radio frequency (RF) networks. In hybrid networks, the main problem is load balancing, which reduces network performance. Therefore, to solve this problem, the load balancing (LB) schemes in HLRNs are studied and focus on the AP assignment for the users. In that, efficient spectrum sensing is found essential to prevent the wrong holes detection in the band using five technologies divided into three stages, namely: Received signal strength (RSS), particle swarm optimization (PSO) and deep learning methods: Feed forward neural network (FFNN), convolutional neural network (CNN) and cascade back propagation neural network (CBPNN). An event such as high energy noise availability or primary user fluctuation (mobility) impact on the throughput is studied, which was carried out in three stages depending on MATLAB. In the first stage, the received signal strength (RSS) algorithm is proposed, which is used the SNR to calculate throughput for fixed and mobility user and user satisfaction. In stage two, the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed to achieve a better performance than the RSS algorithm. At last, in stage three, the DL algorithms (FFNN, CNN, CBPNN) are used to enhance the performance's accuracy and compare them. The results in stage one show that throughput using RSS technique is decreasing when the number of users increases by achieving 390 Mbps approx. is detected with single user existence while 180 Mbps approx. is detected with 10 users' existence. And it can be noted that most of the users are connected to wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) AP. Hence the Wi-Fi is overloaded. Further, only 34 % of the users in RSS based scheme will achieve the desired performance if a user satisfaction threshold of 0.5 is considered for the system. The results in stage two shown that throughput using the PSO technique is outperformed over the others by achieving high average throughput of 960 Mbps approx. Also, it has offered acceptable load balancing for the access points with good user satisfaction reach to 80 % of the users will achieve the desired performance when the user satisfaction threshold is considered to be 0.9 for the system. In stage three, deep learning methods for system performance enhancement are used (as compared with the standard RSS method). throughput is improved, and this improvement is lesser than that in the case of the PSO algorithm. 800 Mbps approx. is achieved using the CNN method, and it is realized that 70 % of the users will achieve full user satisfaction when the user satisfaction threshold is considered 1.2 for the system.

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