Review on UAV-based FSO links: recent advances, challenges, and performance metrics

A Gupta, D Dhawan, N Gupta - Optical Engineering, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
With the rapid advancements in wireless technology, the incorporation of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) in free space optical (FSO) communication can reap several benefits …

Performance and channel modeling optimization for hovering UAV-assisted FSO links

W Guo, Y Zhan, TA Tsiftsis, L Yang - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted free-space optical (FSO) communication has
become a promising solution in both civil and military applications. Nevertheless, hovering …

Comprehensive performance analysis of hovering UAV-based FSO communication system

D Singh, R Swaminathan - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-based communications are expected to play an important
role in the future generation wireless communication networks. It is a promising solution to …

Outage analysis of UAV-based FSO systems over log-normal turbulence channels

MT Dabiri, SMS Sadough - 2019 2nd West Asian Colloquium …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Free-space optical (FSO) communication systems have recently attracted an ever increasing
popularity for data transfer between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Although providing …

Performance evaluation of UAV-assisted FSO link in generalized Malaga distributed atmospheric turbulence conditions

S Sinha, C Kumar - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2023 - Springer
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted free-space optical communication (FSO) system
has recently played a significant role in increasing optical wireless connectivity across …

Investigations on OFDM UAV-based free-space optical transmission system with scintillation mitigation for optical wireless communication-to-ground links in …

EE Elsayed - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2024 - Springer
The potential integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with free space optical (FSO)
communication systems stands as a promising innovation in the realm of wireless network …

Performance analysis and optimization for UAV-based FSO communication systems

RR Lu, JY Wang, XT Fu, SH Lin, Q Wang… - Physical Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, with the increasingly mature development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
technology, free-space optical (FSO) communication with the UAV relay has gradually …

[HTML][HTML] On the performance of all-optical RORIS dual hop UAV based FSO systems

P Saxena, YH Chung - ICT Express, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we investigate the performance of an all-optical dual hop free-space optical
(FSO) communication system using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a relay and …

Hovering UAV-based FSO communications: Channel modelling, performance analysis, and parameter optimization

JY Wang, Y Ma, RR Lu, JB Wang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Relay-assisted free-space optical (FSO) communication systems are exploited as a means
to mitigate the limiting effects of the turbulence induced atmospheric scintillation. However …

Atmospheric turbulence effects on a wavelength diversified ground-to-UAV FSO link

A Harris, JJ Sluss Jr, HH Refai… - Free-Space Laser …, 2006 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The use of free-space optical (FSO) communications links are envisioned as a viable option
for providing a temporary high-bandwidth communications link between a ground station …