Power and Channel Optimization for WiFi Networks Based on REM Data

The very high commercial exploitation of the WiFi based technologies in recent years and the absence of solutions for optimal WiFi orchestration, usually leads to suboptimal spectrum usage and user performances. The combination of WiFi based radio resource management (RRM) and the radio environmental maps (REMs) can provide an efficient solution for a Smart-WiFi technology, which improves the underlying spectrum usage as well as network performance. The REM facilitates efficient utilization of the radio environmental data, like device location, estimated channel models, real-time interference levels between the networks, WiFi channels occupancies etc. This information can be utilized for an intelligent and optimal RRM decision making in WiFi related scenarios. This paper proposes a novel REM based RRM approach for management and optimization of commercial WiFi devices that utilizes the available underlying radio environmental information. The paper demonstrates the proposed approach on a commercially available platform, conducting on-the-fly radio environmental data acquisition and optimized WiFi RRM allocation. The simulation analysis results also show that the proposed Smart-WiFi leverage noticeable performance gains for large scale scenarios, compared to conventional WiFi networks.

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