BER Performance of the Hybrid FSO/RF Attenuation System

Author

Jia, Zhuanhong ; Ao, Faliang ; Zhu, Qinglin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun. & Inf. Eng., Guilin Univ. of Electron. Technol., Guilin

fYear

2006

fDate

26-29 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, we derived BER performance for hybrid FSO/RF systems operating over atmospheric attenuation channels. Simulation results are demonstrated to confirm the analytical results. From the results, we conclude that BER is decreasing as the adverse weather and further distance. If the FSO system is used, fog hampers communication, on the contrary, RF systems are immune to fog. Rain is just contrary. Therefore, we should take advantage of the hybrid system to conquer the disadvantages of one of them operating only, enhance the availability of the system.

Keywords

atmospheric light propagation; electromagnetic wave absorption; error statistics; light absorption; optical communication; optical links; radio links; BER performance; atmospheric attenuation channels; fog; free space optics; hybrid FSO/RF systems; radio frequency links; radiofrequency link; rain; Atmosphere; Atmospheric modeling; Attenuation; Bit error rate; Optical attenuators; Optical receivers; Optical scattering; RF signals; Radio frequency; Rain; Attenuation; BER; FSO/RF; SNR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation & EM Theory, 2006. ISAPE '06. 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0162-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0163-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2006.353532

Filename

4168193