Multi-access selection with attractor selection algorithm in heterogeneous network

Abstract

To solve the problems of heterogeneous wireless network, such as scarce spectrum resources, interference among radio resources and blindness area caused by excessive demands of mobile users, a novel system which integrates the power line carrier (PLC) and the wireless network (WN) with the attractor selection algorithms is proposed. Due to multi-selected paths being transmitted information according to the network environment, the robustness and stability of the integrated the PLC and the WN (IPWN) are improved. Moreover, to transmit the data packets in the different communication protocol of PLC and WN, the effective virtual layer (EVL) above the network layer is employed to convert protocol between the PLC and the WN by resealing the packet. Then, the attractor selection algorithm is employed to select the optimal path among the PLC or the WN adaptively according to the external conditions. Simulation results demonstrate that, comparing to the PLC and the WN, the packet delay of the IPWN is smaller with the increase of the packets, and the IPWN has strong robustness and stability.

3D Markov chain based multi-priority path selection in the heterogeneous Internet of Things

“…Power line has obvious advantages in the wider coverage areas, stability and reliability, which are important and cost-effective for users in IoT to coverage the blind areas and hotspots, such as the countryside, mountain area, no-human-zone and commercial hotspots or community hotspots. In our previous work [9], [10], the PLC has been used as a transmission medium to integrate the wireless network (WN) to achieve better capacity, low-cost performances, etc.…”