Optical Wireless System Performance, Deployment, and Optimization

As the 5G milestone approaches, there needs to be concerted effort towards practical deployment strategies and optimization in order to fully capitalize on the 5G benefits and KPIs (key performance indicators). This chapter aims to provide just that; the authors provide new insights on the performance of the optical wireless link and how this can be deployed as an integrated mobile architecture to provide small cell coverage to highly dense hotspot areas. Not only we investigate the system performance and practical deployment approaches, but we also address their optimization based on ML approaches. Virtual resource management and big data represent prominent 5G paradigms that offer new opportunities in terms of network management and optimization. In this chapter, we consider how ML can play a major role in network optimization by bringing intelligence to the limelight and by investigating how learned patterns or relationships between network states and QoE can be used towards intelligent prediction and optimization.