Heterogeneous Wireless and Visible Light Communication for the Internet of Things
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gnawali, Omprakash | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Gabriel, Edgar | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Ordonez, Carlos | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Pandurangan, Gopal | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Vieira, Marcos Augusto Menezes | |
| dc.creator | Yin, Shengrong 1989- | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-24T21:38:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-24T21:38:00Z | |
| dc.date.created | May 2018 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-05 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2018 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2018-07-24T21:38:01Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Connecting sensor, control, and edge devices to the Internet in a reliable and robust way is critical to the success of many big data and IoT applications. Wireless technologies enable such connectivity but have come under increasing challenge due to the proliferation of devices and increase in data requirements. Devices with wireless connectivity compete with each other in the limited spectrum resources, causing spectrum crunch and interference, which signi cantly hampers the IoT vision. In this dissertation, we study how serious the problem of interference is in wireless networks for IoT, and then propose two solutions to solve this problem. Our goal is to connect IoT devices to the Internet with reliability, robustness, and adaptiveness using edge computing algorithms and methodologies in a practical manner. One solution is to leverage the wireless interference across various IoT devices. We transformed the interference into a communication channel between these devices and evaluated its feasibility in practical environments. The communication channel was established based on the spectrum sharing by various wireless devices that are using different wireless technologies, such as WiFi, Zigbee, or Bluetooth. In this work, we have achieved one-way communication from WiFi devices to Zigbee devices. We have demonstrated the feasibility to send control signals utilizing the interference. This validates that interference utilization can be a practical solution to solve the spectrum-crunch problem. The other solution is to avoid interference by exploring new spectrum resources that can provide wireless connectivity. We adopt visible light as the communication medium since it is ubiquitous and free from wireless interference. Existing embedded LED-to-LED communication is considered a promising technique for IoT connectivity. However, low-cost embedded visible light communication (VLC) has been largely restricted by its reliability, robustness, and speed. In this work, we propose adaptive ambient light cancellation to improve the robustness of embedded VLC, we also design, implement, and open-source a novel embedded VLC platform with a 6-7x performance gain compared to state-of-the-art. | |
| dc.description.department | Computer Science, Department of | |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | born digital | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Portions of this document appear in: Yin, Shengrong, Omprakash Gnawali, Philipp Sommer, and Branislav Kusy. "Multi channel performance of dual band low power wireless network." In Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on, pp. 345-353. IEEE, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/MASS.2014.120; and in: Yin, Shengrong, Qiang Li, and Omprakash Gnawali. "Interconnecting wifi devices with ieee 802.15. 4 devices without using a gateway." In 2015 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), pp. 127-136. IEEE, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS.2015.42; and in: Yin, Shengrong, and Omprakash Gnawali. "Towards embedded visible light communication robust to dynamic ambient light." In Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2016 IEEE, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842344; and in: Yin, Shengrong, Nour Smaoui, Milad Heydariaan, and Omprakash Gnawali. "Purple VLC: Accelerating Visible Light Communication in Room Area through PRU Offloading." (2018). | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10657/3300 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | The author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. UH Libraries has secured permission to reproduce any and all previously published materials contained in the work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s). | |
| dc.subject | Radio Interference | |
| dc.subject | Crosstalk-based Communication | |
| dc.subject | Visible Light Communication | |
| dc.title | Heterogeneous Wireless and Visible Light Communication for the Internet of Things | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.college | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | |
| thesis.degree.department | Computer Science, Department of | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Computer Science | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Houston | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |
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