REM-facilitated Smart-Wifi

The unlicensed bands recently became overcrowded due to the WiFi networks, as the main populates of these bands. This is owed to the significant growth of WiFi users in the last decade, as well as the absence of solutions for coordinated and efficient interference management between WiFi devices. The synergy between Radio Environmental Maps (REMs) and Radio Resource Management (RRM) for Smart-WiFi, can be a viable solution to improve the spectrum utilization in the unlicensed bands and hence, WiFi performances. Environment data such as empirical propagation models, transmitters´ locations, up-to-date interference levels, statistical channels occupancies, can serve as input to an enhanced RRM for these scenarios. The proposed demonstration aims to showcase the benefits of using REM information in the WiFi optimization. The demonstration utilizes a REM-facilitated Smart-WiFi prototype, performing real-time REM data acquisition, processing and inference as input to an enhanced WiFi optimization.