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Internet of radio and light: 5G building network radio and edge architecture

Show Author's Information Yue Zhang( ),  Hequn Zhang,  John Cosmas,  Nawar Jawad,  Kareem Ali,  Ben Meunier,  Adam Kapovits,  Li-Ke Huang,  Wei Li,  Lina Shi,  Xun Zhang,  Jintao Wang,  Israel Koffman,  Muller Robert,  Charilaos C. Zarakovitis
∙ School of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
∙ Brunel University, London, UB8 3PH, UK.
∙ Eurescom GmBH, Heidelberg 69123, Germany.
∙ Viavi Solutions, Stevenage, SG1 2AN, UK.
∙ Institut Supérieur D’électronique De Paris, Paris 75006, France.
∙ Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
∙ RunEL Ltd, Rishon Lezion 7565502, Israel.
∙ Fraunhofer IIS, Ilmenau 98693, Germany.
∙ National Centre of Scientific Research Demokritos, Agia Paraskevi 15341, Greece.
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5G, Internet of Radio-Light (IoRL), Visible Light Communications (VLC), millimeter Wave communications (mmWave), Remote Radio Light Head (RRLH), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Network (SDN), positioning
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Zhang Y, Zhang H, Cosmas J, et al. Internet of radio and light: 5G building network radio and edge architecture. Intelligent and Converged Networks, 2020, 1(1): 37-57. https://doi.org/10.23919/ICN.2020.0002
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The Internet of Radio-Light (IoRL) is a cutting-edge system paradigm to enable seamless 5G service provision in indoor environments, such as homes, hospitals, and museums. The system draws on innovative architectural structure that sits on the synergy between the Radio Access Network (RAN) technologies of millimeter Wave communications (mmWave) and Visible Light Communications (VLC) for improving network throughput, latency, and coverage compared to existing efforts. The aim of this paper is to introduce the IoRL system architecture and present the key technologies and techniques utilised at each layer of the system. Special emphasis is given in detailing the IoRL physical layer (Layer 1) and Medium Access Control layer (MAC, Layer 2) by means of describing their unique design characteristics and interfaces as well as the robust IoRL methods of improving the estimation accuracy of user positioning relying on uplink mmWave and downlink VLC measurements.


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Internet of radio and light: 5G building network radio and edge architecture

∙ School of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
∙ Brunel University, London, UB8 3PH, UK.
∙ Eurescom GmBH, Heidelberg 69123, Germany.
∙ Viavi Solutions, Stevenage, SG1 2AN, UK.
∙ Institut Supérieur D’électronique De Paris, Paris 75006, France.
∙ Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
∙ RunEL Ltd, Rishon Lezion 7565502, Israel.
∙ Fraunhofer IIS, Ilmenau 98693, Germany.
∙ National Centre of Scientific Research Demokritos, Agia Paraskevi 15341, Greece.

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The Internet of Radio-Light (IoRL) is a cutting-edge system paradigm to enable seamless 5G service provision in indoor environments, such as homes, hospitals, and museums. The system draws on innovative architectural structure that sits on the synergy between the Radio Access Network (RAN) technologies of millimeter Wave communications (mmWave) and Visible Light Communications (VLC) for improving network throughput, latency, and coverage compared to existing efforts. The aim of this paper is to introduce the IoRL system architecture and present the key technologies and techniques utilised at each layer of the system. Special emphasis is given in detailing the IoRL physical layer (Layer 1) and Medium Access Control layer (MAC, Layer 2) by means of describing their unique design characteristics and interfaces as well as the robust IoRL methods of improving the estimation accuracy of user positioning relying on uplink mmWave and downlink VLC measurements.

Keywords: 5G, Internet of Radio-Light (IoRL), Visible Light Communications (VLC), millimeter Wave communications (mmWave), Remote Radio Light Head (RRLH), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Network (SDN), positioning

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Received: 17 February 2020
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Published: 30 June 2020
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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFE011230) and the EU Horizon 2020 Project (No. 761992).

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