Optical wireless hybrid networks: Trends, opportunities, challenges, and research directions

MZ Chowdhury, MK Hasan, M Shahjalal… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical wireless communication (OWC) is an excellent complementary solution to its radio
frequency (RF) counterpart. OWC technologies have been demonstrated to be able to …

Mixed dual-hop FSO-RF communication systems through reconfigurable intelligent surface

L Yang, W Guo, IS Ansari - IEEE Communications Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose a dual-hop reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-based free
space optical and radio frequency (FSO-RF) communication system, where an RIS is utilized …

Outage probability and average BER of UAV-assisted dual-hop FSO communication with amplify-and-forward relaying

G Xu, N Zhang, M Xu, Z Xu, Q Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be harnessed as relay nodes in free-space optical
(FSO) communication systems to realize a flexible and cost-effective approach for delivering …

A review of transmission rate over wireless fading channels: Classifications, applications, and challenges

P Yadav, S Kumar, R Kumar - Wireless Personal Communications, 2022 - Springer
To address the explosive traffic demands, the capacity of the fading channel is increasingly
becoming a prime concern in the designing of the wireless communication system. The …

Secrecy outage analysis of mixed RF-FSO downlink SWIPT systems

H Lei, Z Dai, KH Park, W Lei, G Pan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze a secure dual-hop mixed radio frequency-free space optical (RF-FSO) downlink
simultaneous wireless information and power transfer system. The FSO link and all RF links …

Performance analysis for mixed κ-μ fading and M-distribution dual-hop radio frequency/free space optical communication systems

G Xu, Z Song - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mixed radio frequency (RF) and free space optical (FSO) communications are a promising
alternative technology for backbone networks of next-generation wireless communications …

Secrecy outage analysis of mixed RF-FSO systems with channel imperfection

H Lei, H Luo, KH Park, Z Ren, G Pan… - IEEE Photonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze the secrecy outage performance of a mixed radio frequency-free space optical
(RF-FSO) transmission system with imperfect channel state information (CSI). We deal with a …

On secure mixed RF-FSO systems with TAS and imperfect CSI

H Lei, H Luo, KH Park, IS Ansari, W Lei… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we analyze the secrecy outage performance of a dual-hop relay system
composed of multiple-input-multiple-output radio-frequency (RF) links and a free-space …

On the performance analysis of higher order QAM schemes over mixed RF/FSO systems

PK Singya, N Kumar, V Bhatia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, the performance of a dual-hop variable gain amplify-and-forward (AF) mixed
radio frequency (RF)/free space optics (FSO) system is analyzed in details. As variable gain …

Aggregate hardware impairments over mixed RF/FSO relaying systems with outdated CSI

E Balti, M Guizani, B Hamdaoui… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a dual-hop radiofrequency (RF)/free-space optical system with
multiple relays employing the decode-and-forward and amplify-and-forward with a fixed gain …