scholarly journals Optimal Placement of UAV-Assisted Amplify-and-Forward Relays for Mitigation of Pointing Error in Optical Wireless Backhaul

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Salman Bashir ◽  
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Placement ◽  
Constraint Optimization ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Amplify And Forward ◽  
Pointing Error ◽  
Wireless Backhaul ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Distance Vector ◽  
Outage Probabilities

The angular instability of unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) relays as well as the turbulence-induced beam wander may lead to significant pointing error in free-space optical backhaul. The hop distance between each relay in a serial relay scheme is an important parameter that can be optimized in order to enhance the performance of the system. In this study, we have optimized the error and outage probabilities as a function of the hop distance vector for amplify-and-forward relays (AF) under a number of constraints such as the maximum and average relay power and the maximum relay gain. We have discovered that for the unconstrained optimization problem, the optimum hop distances is a strictly increasing sequence for both the error and outage probabilities. For maximum power constraint optimization, the optimum hop distances form a strictly increasing sequence, whereas for maximum gain constraint optimization, the optimum hop distances lead to a nondecreasing sequence. <br>

scholarly journals Optimal Placement of UAV-Assisted Amplify-and-Forward Relays for Mitigation of Pointing Error in Optical Wireless Backhaul

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Salman Bashir ◽  
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Placement ◽  
Constraint Optimization ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Amplify And Forward ◽  
Pointing Error ◽  
Wireless Backhaul ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Distance Vector ◽  
Outage Probabilities

The angular instability of unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) relays as well as the turbulence-induced beam wander may lead to significant pointing error in free-space optical backhaul. The hop distance between each relay in a serial relay scheme is an important parameter that can be optimized in order to enhance the performance of the system. In this study, we have optimized the error and outage probabilities as a function of the hop distance vector for amplify-and-forward relays (AF) under a number of constraints such as the maximum and average relay power and the maximum relay gain. We have discovered that for the unconstrained optimization problem, the optimum hop distances is a strictly increasing sequence for both the error and outage probabilities. For maximum power constraint optimization, the optimum hop distances form a strictly increasing sequence, whereas for maximum gain constraint optimization, the optimum hop distances lead to a nondecreasing sequence. <br>

scholarly journals Energy Optimization of a Laser-Powered Hovering-UAV Relay in Optical Wireless Backhaul

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Salman Bashir ◽  
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Achievable Rate ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Decode And Forward ◽  
Wireless Backhaul

<div>Due to their flexibility and low cost deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will most likely act as base stations and backhaul relays in the next generation of wireless communication systems. However, these UAVs---in the untethered mode---can only operate for a finite time due to limited energy they carry in their batteries. In free-space optical communications, one solution is to transport both the data and the energy from the source to the UAV through the laser beam---a concept known as <i>simultaneous lightwave information and power transfer</i> (SLIPT). In this study, we have analyzed the SLIPT scheme for laser-powered decode-and-forward UAV relays in an optical wireless backhaul. The major goal of this study is to optimally allocate the received beam energy between the decoding circuit, the transmitting circuit and the rotor block of the relay in order to maximize a quality-of-service metric such as maximum achievable rate, outage or error probabilities. As expected, we note that the optimal power allocation depends heavily on the source-relay and relay-destination channel conditions. In the final part of this study, we have maximized the operational time of the UAV relay given that the maximum achievable rate stays above a certain threshold in order to meet a minimum quality-of-service requirement.</div>

scholarly journals Energy Optimization of a Laser-Powered Hovering-UAV Relay in Optical Wireless Backhaul

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Salman Bashir ◽  
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Achievable Rate ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Decode And Forward ◽  
Wireless Backhaul

Due to their flexibility and low cost deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will most likely act as base stations and backhaul relays in the next generation of wireless communication systems. However, these UAVs---in the untethered mode---can only operate for a finite time due to limited energy they carry in their batteries. In free-space optical communications, one solution is to transport both the data and the energy from the source to the UAV through the laser beam---a concept known as simultaneous lightwave information and power transfer (SLIPT). In this study, we have analyzed the SLIPT scheme for laser-powered decode-and-forward UAV relays in an optical wireless backhaul. The major goal of this study is to optimally allocate the received beam energy between the decoding circuit, the transmitting circuit and the rotor block of the relay in order to maximize a quality-of-service metric such as maximum achievable rate, outage or error probabilities. As expected, we note that the optimal power allocation depends heavily on the source-relay and relay-destination channel conditions. In the final part of this study, we have maximized the operational time of the UAV relay given that the maximum achievable rate stays above a certain threshold in order to meet a minimum quality-of-service requirement.

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.

scholarly journals Energy Optimization of a Laser-Powered Hovering-UAV Relay in Optical Wireless Backhaul

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Salman Bashir ◽  
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Achievable Rate ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Decode And Forward ◽  
Wireless Backhaul

<div>Due to their flexibility and low cost deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will most likely act as base stations and backhaul relays in the next generation of wireless communication systems. However, these UAVs---in the untethered mode---can only operate for a finite time due to limited energy they carry in their batteries. In free-space optical communications, one solution is to transport both the data and the energy from the source to the UAV through the laser beam---a concept known as <i>simultaneous lightwave information and power transfer</i> (SLIPT). In this study, we have analyzed the SLIPT scheme for laser-powered decode-and-forward UAV relays in an optical wireless backhaul. The major goal of this study is to optimally allocate the received beam energy between the decoding circuit, the transmitting circuit and the rotor block of the relay in order to maximize a quality-of-service metric such as maximum achievable rate, outage or error probabilities. As expected, we note that the optimal power allocation depends heavily on the source-relay and relay-destination channel conditions. In the final part of this study, we have maximized the operational time of the UAV relay given that the maximum achievable rate stays above a certain threshold in order to meet a minimum quality-of-service requirement.</div>

Impact of Pointing Error on the BER Performance of an OFDM Optical Wireless Communication Link over Turbulent Condition

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobby Barua ◽  
S. P. Majumder
Keyword(s):  
Noise Analysis ◽  
Data Rate ◽  
Channel Noise ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Power Penalty ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Pointing Error ◽  
Turbulent Condition ◽  
Ber Performance

AbstractAn analytical approach is developed in this paper to evaluate the bit error rate (BER) performance of an optical wireless (OW) communication system with multiplexing of the RF orthogonal frequency division (OFDM) over turbulent condition taking into account the effect of pointing error. The received signal is detected through direct detection receiver followed by RF synchronous demodulation including the effect of OW channel and different form of noises such as receiver thermal noise, background channel noise and photo detector shot noise. Analysis is developed for an OFDM system over the OW channel, taking into account the effect of pointing error between the transmitter and the receiver in turbulent condition and the analysis reveals that the OFDM OW system is less affected by pointing error with deference to the major power penalty at BER performance. For instance, power penalty at BER 10−9 is found to be 3 dB for 256 OFDM subcarriers with 9 millidegree displacement angle at a data rate of 10 Gbps under turbulent condition. It is found that the system is more influenced by the atmospheric turbulence at a higher data rate.

Simulation modeling of free space optical communication system

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Sharma ◽  
Rajinder Singh Kaler
Keyword(s):  
Optical Communication ◽  
Free Space ◽  
Simulation Modeling ◽  
Additive White Gaussian Noise ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Free Space Optical Communication ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Wireless Signal ◽  
Space Optical Communication

Abstract The optical wireless communication has been designed by developing a model with the support of MATLAB simulator using Simulink where channel considered to be a free space. In this model, Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel has used to analyze bit error rate (BER) and power loss of optical wireless signal at receiver. The consequence due to turbulence in atmosphere of free space on transmitted signal has examined. The BER and signal power have extremely ruined on rigorous atmospheric unstable condition even for a short distance in an optical wireless channel. The BER of less than 10−3 has been achieved for free space optical communication considered to be an excellent BER for FSO.

Impact of Various Parameters on the Performance of Inter-aircraft Optical Wireless Communication Link

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehtab Singh
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Transmission Rate ◽  
Power Level ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Optical Wireless Communication ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Antenna Aperture ◽  
Aperture Diameter ◽  
Pointing Error ◽  
The Impact

AbstractOptical wireless communication (OWC) systems also known as Free space optics (FSO) are capable of providing high channel bandwidth, high data transmission rates, low power consumption, and high security. OWC links are being considered in different applications such as inter-satellite links, terrestrial links, and inter-aircraft communication links. This paper investigates the impact of different system parameters such as transmission power level, operating wavelength, transmitter pointing error angle, bit transmission rate, atmospheric attenuation, antenna aperture diameter, geometric losses, the responsivity of the photodetector, and link range on the performance of inter-aircraft optical wireless communication link.

Effect of adverse weather conditions and pointing error on the performance of 2-D WH/TS OCDMA over FSO link

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bithi Mitra ◽  
Md. Jahedul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Free Space ◽  
Atmospheric Condition ◽  
Optical Power ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Central Wavelength ◽  
Pointing Error ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Code Division Multiple ◽  
Ber Performance

AbstractIn this paper, the performance of two-dimensional (2-D) wavelength-hopping/time-spreading (WH/TS) optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) system over free space optical (FSO) channel is analyzed in the presence of pointing error and different weather conditions. Prime code scheme is employed for both wavelength-hopping and time-spreading to address user code-matrix. The operating central wavelength of 1550 nm is considered to demonstrate the bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed system as a function of various system parameters. The required optical power of the proposed system is determined to maintain a BER value of 10−9. The numerical evaluation interprets that the BER performance is highly dependent on transmission length, transmitted power, pointing error angle as well as the number of simultaneous user. It is also observed that the 2-D OCDMA system over free space needs minimum required optical power in case of rainy atmospheric condition, but it is maximum for foggy atmospheric condition.

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