Smart Routing for Improved PLC Backhauling of the Radio Access Network

TL;DR

This paper presents a hybrid simulation approach combining powerline and radio networks to analyze channel capacity and communication quality, enabling the development of a smart routing algorithm for improved PLC backhauling.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hybrid simulation framework that leverages transmission line theory to optimize routing in PLC and radio network integration.

Findings

Deterministic network properties can predict performance.

Smart routing improves network efficiency.

Channel capacity depends on cable types and geometrical properties.

Abstract

Transmission line theory enables the bottom up study of networks based on wireline infrastructures. This technique is here applied to a simulator that brings together powerline communication networks with small radio cells ones in a hybrid paradigm: this allows to implement a study of channel capacity and communication quality based on the geometrical properties of the network and the type of cables employed to enable connectivity. Results are shown regarding how deterministic properties related to performance in the network can be retrieved and used to enable a smart routing algorithm.