TY - GEN
T1 - Outage performance of multi-hop hybrid FSO/RF communication systems
AU - Kazemi, Hossein
AU - Uysal, Murat
AU - Touati, Farid
AU - Haas, Harald
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/11/30
Y1 - 2015/11/30
N2 - In this paper, five scenarios are considered for the realization of a multi-hop hybrid free-space optical/radio frequency (FSO/RF) communication system with decode-and-forward (DF) relaying, and analytical outage probability expressions are derived. The scenarios have a different number of FSO and RF links. The aim is to identify an optimum scenario to effectively improve the end-to-end reliability of the multi-hop hybrid FSO/RF system. Outage performance is investigated for the scenarios under various weather conditions through numerical examples. It is identified that for a given link distance the end-to-end outage probability is minimized when using a hybrid FSO/RF link between every two successive nodes of the multi-hop system, and this requires the maximum number of FSO and RF links to be deployed.
AB - In this paper, five scenarios are considered for the realization of a multi-hop hybrid free-space optical/radio frequency (FSO/RF) communication system with decode-and-forward (DF) relaying, and analytical outage probability expressions are derived. The scenarios have a different number of FSO and RF links. The aim is to identify an optimum scenario to effectively improve the end-to-end reliability of the multi-hop hybrid FSO/RF system. Outage performance is investigated for the scenarios under various weather conditions through numerical examples. It is identified that for a given link distance the end-to-end outage probability is minimized when using a hybrid FSO/RF link between every two successive nodes of the multi-hop system, and this requires the maximum number of FSO and RF links to be deployed.
KW - Multi-hop transmission
KW - decode-and-forward (DF)
KW - hybrid free-space optical/radio frequency (FSO/RF)
KW - outage probability
KW - weather condition
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U2 - 10.1109/IWOW.2015.7342271
DO - 10.1109/IWOW.2015.7342271
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84960929333
T3 - 2015 4th International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, IWOW 2015
SP - 83
EP - 87
BT - 2015 4th International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, IWOW 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, IWOW 2015
Y2 - 7 September 2015 through 10 September 2015
ER -