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Thesis defences

PhD Oral Exam - Mohamed Arfaoui, Information and Systems Engineering

LiFi Transceiver Designs for 6G Wireless Networks


Date & time
Friday, August 26, 2022 (all day)
Cost

This event is free

Organization

School of Graduate Studies

Contact

Daniela Ferrer

Where

Online

When studying for a doctoral degree (PhD), candidates submit a thesis that provides a critical review of the current state of knowledge of the thesis subject as well as the student’s own contributions to the subject. The distinguishing criterion of doctoral graduate research is a significant and original contribution to knowledge.

Once accepted, the candidate presents the thesis orally. This oral exam is open to the public.

Abstract

Due to the dramatic increase in high data rate services, and in order to meet the demands of the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, researchers from both academia and industry have been exploring advanced transmission techniques, new network architectures and new frequency bands, such as the millimeter wave (mmWave), the infrared, and the visible light bands. Light-fidelity (LiFi) particularly is an emerging, novel, bidirectional, high-speed and fully networked optical wireless communication (OWC) technology that has been introduced as a promising solution for 6G networks, especially for indoor connectivity, owing to the large unexploited spectrum that translates to significantly high data rates.

Although there has been a big leap in the maturity of the LiFi technology, there is still a considerable gap between the available LiFi technology and the required demands of 6G networks. Motivated by this, this dissertation aims to bridge between the current research literature of LiFi and the expected demands of 6G networks. Specifically, the key goal of this dissertation is to fill some shortcomings in the LiFi technology, such as channel modeling, transceiver designs, channel state information (CSI) acquisition, localization, quality-of-service (QoS), and performance optimization. Our work is devoted to address and solve some of these limitations. Towards achieving this goal, this dissertation makes significant contributions to several areas of LiFi. First, it develops novel and measurements-based channel models for LiFi systems that are required for performance analysis and handover management. Second, it proposes a novel design for LiFi devices that is capable of alleviating the real behaviour of users and the impurities of indoor propagation environments. Third, it proposes intelligent, accurate and fast joint position and orientation techniques for LiFi devices, which improve the CSI estimation process and boost the indoor location-based and navigation-based services. Then, it proposes novel proactive optimization technique that can provide near-optimal and real-time service for indoor mobile LiFi users that are running some services with high data rates, such as iii extended reality, video conferencing, and real-time video monitoring. Finally, it proposes advanced multiple access techniques that are capable of cancelling the effects of interference in indoor multi-user settings. The studied problems are tackled using various tools from probability and statistic theory, system design and integration theory, optimization theory, and deep learning. The Results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed designs, solutions, and techniques. Nevertheless, the findings in this dissertation highlight key guidelines for the effective design of LiFi while considering their unique propagation features.

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