Performance Analysis of Switching Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission

Author

Usman, M. ; Hong-Chuan Yang ; Alouini, M.-S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

14-17 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Hybrid free space optical (FSO)/ radio frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising solution for high data rate wireless back haul.We present and analyze a switching based transmission scheme for hybrid FSO/RF system. Specifically, either FSO or RF link will be active at a certain time instance, with FSO link enjoying a higher priority. 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 FSO only scenario.

Keywords

data communication; error statistics; light transmission; optical communication; optical links; radio links; telecommunication switching; bit error rate; ergodic capacity; free space optical link; hybrid FSO transmission system; hybrid RF transmission system; outage probability; radio frequency link; switching performance analysis; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Capacity planning; Fading; Modulation; Radio frequency; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2014 IEEE 80th

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCFall.2014.6966119

Filename

6966119