scholarly journals Performance of UAV-to-Ground FSO Communications with APD and Pointing Errors

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Ha Duyen Trung
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Turbulence ◽  
Potential Method ◽  
Symbol Error Rate ◽  
Pointing Error ◽  
High Data ◽  
Space Optics ◽  
Ground Station ◽  
Total Noise ◽  
Communication Links ◽  
Link Loss

Recently, a combination of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and free-space optics (FSO) has been investigated as a potential method for high data-rate front-haul communication links. The aim of this work was to address the performance of UAV-to-ground station-based FSO communications in terms of the symbol error rate (SER). The system proposes utilizing subcarrier intensity modulation and an avalanche photo-diode (APD) to combat the joint effects of atmospheric turbulence conditions and pointing error due to the UAV’s fluctuations. In the proposed system model, the FSO transmitter (Tx) is mounted on the UAV flying over the monitoring area, whereas the FSO receiver (Rx) is placed on either the ground or top of a high building. Unlike previous works related to this topic, we considered combined channel parameters that affect the system performance such as transmitted power, link loss, various atmospheric turbulence conditions, pointing error loss, and the total noise at the APD receiver. Numerical results have shown that, for the best system SER performance, the value of an average APD gain at the Rx can be selected, varying from 18 to 30, whereas the equivalent beam waist radius at the Tx should be in a range from 2 to 2.2 cm in order to decrease the effects from the UAV’s fluctuations.

On the End-to-End Performance of a Mixed RF-FSO link with a Decode-and-Forward Relay

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Himanshu Khanna ◽  
Mona Aggarwal ◽  
Swaran Ahuja
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Turbulence ◽  
Error Rate ◽  
Path Loss ◽  
Symbol Error Rate ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Decode And Forward ◽  
Pointing Error ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the performance of a decode-and-forward relayed mixed radio frequency-free space optical (RF-FSO) dual-hop link. The transmitter to receiver link’s first-hop is a RF channel and the second-hop is a FSO channel. The RF link experiences long-term shadowing and short-term multi-path fading effects, while the FSO channel suffers atmospheric turbulence fading, path loss, and pointing error-induced misalignment fading. The performance of the system is analyzed considering the impact of these parameters. We model the RF link by generalized-K fading distribution and the atmospheric turbulence over the FSO link by the gamma–gamma fading. The expressions in closed form for the outage probability, symbol error rate for the system employing $q$-ary PSK modulation schemes, and the channel capacity of the system are derived. The obtained numerical results are also depicted by numerical plots.

scholarly journals Relay Selection Schemes for FSO Communications over Turbulent Channels

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menna Taher ◽  
Mohamed Abaza ◽  
Mostafa Fedawy ◽  
Moustafa Aly
Keyword(s):  
Time Slot ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Free Space Optics ◽  
Pointing Error ◽  
High Data ◽  
Space Optics ◽  
Turbulence Regime ◽  
Channel Coefficient ◽  
Comprehensive Comparison ◽  
Log Normal

Free Space Optics (FSO) Communication has attracted the attention of the researchers in the last decade due to its high data rate, security, and low cost. Relay-assisted techniques are used to divide the distance to shorter hops in order to mitigate the effects of turbulence, weather attenuation, pointing error, and geometric loss. Choosing an active relay per time slot has been proven to enhance the performance of the system and decrease the loading effect on the system when compared to all active relays. This paper investigates the best relay that can be selected according to the source to relay (S-R) channel coefficient, relay to destination (R-D) channel coefficient, and source to destination (S-D) channel coefficient. A comprehensive comparison is applied to the three following cases: (a) Broadcast phase from source to relay to select the best (Proactive-Relay); (b) Broadcast phase from relay to destination after broadcasting to all relays then select (Reactive-relays); and, (c) Direct link from source-to-best relay-to-destination to conclude which method is better for different scenarios, such as turbulence regime, number of relays, different pointing error effect, and severity of S-R as compared to R-D and vice versa. The selection methods regard to four aspects: (1) Number of relays (two or three relays); (2) Distance between Source-Relay and Relay-Destination (D = 400–600 m, 500–500 m, and 600–400 m); (3) The different turbulence of Log-normal channel and Gamma-Gamma channel (with a refractive index coefficient( C n 2 = 0.5 × 10−14, 2 × 10−14 and 5 × 10−14)); and finally, (4) Beam waist ω z (pointing error).

Evaluation of FSO Link Using Array of Photodetectors

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehtab Singh
Keyword(s):  
Data Transmission ◽  
Weather Condition ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Free Space Optics ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
High Data ◽  
Space Optics ◽  
Channel Bandwidth ◽  
Communication Links

AbstractIn recent years, free-space optics (FSO) communication links have gained importance due to the availability of high data transmission rates and channel bandwidth. Although FSO links have many advantages, it also suffers from many limitations, which degrade the performance of the communication link. In this paper, the performance of an FSO link has been evaluated under fog weather condition as it severely degrades the quality of the received signal. One of the most important techniques to improve the quality of received signal in an FSO link is by using an array of photodetectors at the receiver end. In this paper, the performance evaluation of an FSO link has been performed using an array of photodetectors at the receiver end using OPTISYSTEM simulation software. The performance has been analyzed by evaluating

Performance Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Relaying FSO/SC-QAM Systems over Weak Turbulence Channels and Pointing Error Impairments

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ha Duyen Trung
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Turbulence ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Symbol Error Rate ◽  
Aperture Size ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Amplify And Forward ◽  
Pointing Error ◽  
Log Normal ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Af Relaying

AbstractIn this paper, the end-to-end performance of free-space optical (FSO) communication system combining with Amplify-and-Forward (AF)-assisted or fixed-gain relaying technology using subcarrier quadrature amplitude modulation (SC-QAM) over weak atmospheric turbulence channels modeled by log-normal distribution with pointing error impairments is studied. More specifically, unlike previous studies on AF relaying FSO communication systems without pointing error effects; the pointing error effect is studied by taking into account the influence of beamwidth, aperture size and jitter variance. In addition, a combination of these models to analyze the combined effect of atmospheric turbulence and pointing error to AF relaying FSO/SC-QAM systems is used. Finally, an analytical expression is derived to evaluate the average symbol error rate (ASER) performance of such systems. The numerical results show that the impact of pointing error on the performance of AF relaying FSO/SC-QAM systems and how we use proper values of aperture size and beamwidth to improve the performance of such systems. Some analytical results are confirmed by Monte-Carlo simulations.

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