Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Performance evaluation of switching between WiFi and LiFi under a common
  virtual network interface   The LiFi paradigm is rapidly emerging as one of the technologies that will
enable an impressive increase in the bandwidth made available to wireless
devices in 6G networks. Due to their intrinsic physical characteristics,
visible light and infrared communications present coverage features that are
different from their radio wave counterparts. A popular paradigm which has
recently emerged is that of hybrid networks, in which the two wireless
connection are used together in an hybrid configuration. We consider a hybrid
wireless local area network composed of both WiFi and LiFi Access Points (AP)
and wireless devices, in which the union of the two technologies is performed
at the data link layer, i.e., each device is identified in the network by a
unique IP address, using a virtual network interface obtained by bonding the
WiFi and LiFi physical interfaces, implemented through commercially available
products. We measure the time it takes to switch across the two physical
interfaces and its impact on the traffic flow, under specific triggering events
for the switch, namely an interface malfunctioning, a loss of signal, and a
manual switch. Our experimental results show that the different types of
triggering events have an impact on the time it takes to reconfigure the
currently active interface, with recovery times ranging from few tens
milliseconds to few seconds. In terms of packet losses at the flow level, a
switch can entail a maximum packet loss percentage in the order of 10% during 1
second.

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