TY - GEN
T1 - Operation Altitude Optimization of Airborne FSO Links in the Presence of Pointing Errors
AU - Elamassie, Mohammed
AU - Uysal, Murat
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - With its ultra-high capacity, free space optical (FSO) communication is an ideal backhaul solution for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs). Unlike traditional terrestrial FSO systems, airborne FSO terminals are subject to significant pointing errors. In particular, the rotational stability of a rotary-wing UAV arises from rolling, yawing, and pitching and induces altitude-dependent shifts in the center of the received beam. This motivates the optimal selection of operation altitude to minimize the effects of pointing errors. In this paper, we analyze the bit error rate (BER) of a UAV-mounted FSO link in the presence of pointing errors and determine optimal operation altitudes to minimize the BER.
AB - With its ultra-high capacity, free space optical (FSO) communication is an ideal backhaul solution for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs). Unlike traditional terrestrial FSO systems, airborne FSO terminals are subject to significant pointing errors. In particular, the rotational stability of a rotary-wing UAV arises from rolling, yawing, and pitching and induces altitude-dependent shifts in the center of the received beam. This motivates the optimal selection of operation altitude to minimize the effects of pointing errors. In this paper, we analyze the bit error rate (BER) of a UAV-mounted FSO link in the presence of pointing errors and determine optimal operation altitudes to minimize the BER.
KW - Airborne-base station FSO link
KW - BER minimization
KW - optimal operation altitudes
KW - pointing errors
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U2 - 10.1109/SIU61531.2024.10601130
DO - 10.1109/SIU61531.2024.10601130
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85200898138
T3 - 32nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU 2024 - Proceedings
BT - 32nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU 2024 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 32nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU 2024
Y2 - 15 May 2024 through 18 May 2024
ER -