Wireless Network Optimization via Physical Layer Information for Smart Cities

Fu Xiao, Xiaohui Xie, Zhetao Li, Qingyong Deng, Anfeng Liu, Lijuan Sun

Abstract: In recent years, the rapid development of urbanization has posed enormous challenges to transportation, security management, quality of life, and so on, which makes the research and development of smart city important. As an information-driven project, strong communication infrastructures are required for connecting smart objects, people, and sensors together. As a consequence, the optimization of the wireless network is the primary premise to support and improve the quality of smart services. The challenge lies in the difficulty to achieve the quantitative description of networks due to the complexity and variability of wireless environments. It is too coarse-grained to express characteristics of networks simply by the strength of received signals through mobile devices. To extract more fine-grained network characteristics, we dig into the PHY layer collecting CSI for network descriptions and extract three signal characteristics, i.e., Rician-K, delay spread and spectral width, from real-world wireless channels. The K-means clustering algorithm is implemented in this article for good performance of network partitioning, and experiments are conducted based on the data sets collected from real scenarios. Simulation results verify the feasibility of our scheme.