Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance Analysis

Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance Analysis

Hybrid free-space optical (FSO)/radio-frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising solution for high-data-rate wireless backhaul. We present and analyze a switching-based transmission scheme for the hybrid FSO/RF system. Specifically, either the FSO or RF link will be active at a certain time...

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Main Authors: Muneer Usman, Hong-Chuan Yang, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2014-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6887284/
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spelling doaj-cf129efa0bf14cea87aca0b2e2ec0b8e2021-03-29T17:19:31ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552014-01-016511310.1109/JPHOT.2014.23526296887284Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance AnalysisMuneer Usman0Hong-Chuan Yang1Mohamed-Slim Alouini2Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CanadaDept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CanadaDept. of Electr. Eng., King Abdullah Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi ArabiaHybrid free-space optical (FSO)/radio-frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising solution for high-data-rate wireless backhaul. We present and analyze a switching-based transmission scheme for the hybrid FSO/RF system. Specifically, either the FSO or RF link will be active at a certain time instance, with the FSO link enjoying a higher priority. We considered both a single-threshold case and a dual-threshold case for FSO link operation. Analytical expressions have been obtained for the outage probability, average bit error rate, and ergodic capacity for the resulting system. Numerical examples are presented to compare the performance of the hybrid scheme with the FSO-only scenario.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6887284/
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author Muneer Usman
Hong-Chuan Yang
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
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Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance Analysis
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Hong-Chuan Yang
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
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title Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance Analysis
title_short Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance Analysis
title_full Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance Analysis
title_fullStr Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance Analysis
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publisher IEEE
series IEEE Photonics Journal
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publishDate 2014-01-01
description Hybrid free-space optical (FSO)/radio-frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising solution for high-data-rate wireless backhaul. We present and analyze a switching-based transmission scheme for the hybrid FSO/RF system. Specifically, either the FSO or RF link will be active at a certain time instance, with the FSO link enjoying a higher priority. We considered both a single-threshold case and a dual-threshold case for FSO link operation. Analytical expressions have been obtained for the outage probability, average bit error rate, and ergodic capacity for the resulting system. Numerical examples are presented to compare the performance of the hybrid scheme with the FSO-only scenario.
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