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Hybrid visible light communication and radio frequency (VLC/RF) networks provide combined benefits of both visible light and radio frequency technologies. This is an eminent technology for providing 5G services in an indoor environment. Because of small coverage range, multiple VLC cells co-exist in a close proximity. For efficiently utilizing resources of multiple VLC access points (VLC-APs), a different approach than conventional multi RF-APs based resource allocation schemes is required due to unique characteristics of light. In this paper, we provide an optimized solution for combined power and slot allocation in hybrid VLC/RF networks with the objective of maximizing sum rate for a downlink communication scenario. The resources are optimized on frame by frame basis, instead of per request basis. This frame-based optimization reduces the frequency of optimization and also improves the utilization of the …