A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction

A Jahid, MH Alsharif, TJ Hall - Journal of network and computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the unprecedented growth of high speed multimedia services and diversified
applications initiated from the massive connectivity of IoT devices, 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) …

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 …

UAV-assisted RF/FSO relay system for space-air-ground integrated network: A performance analysis

L Qu, G Xu, Z Zeng, N Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) within UAV-assisted free-space optical
(FSO) communication systems can efficiently accommodate massive connections and …

Uplink massive access in mixed RF/FSO satellite-aerial-terrestrial networks

Q Huang, M Lin, WP Zhu, J Cheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the massive access for a satellite-aerial-terrestrial network (SATN),
where a high-altitude platform (HAP) is deployed as a relay to assist the uplink transmission …

A survey of hybrid free space optics (FSO) communication networks to achieve 5G connectivity for backhauling

O Aboelala, IE Lee, GC Chung - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Increased capacity, higher data rate, decreased latency, and better service quality are
examples of the primary objectives or needs that must be catered to in the near future, ie …

On the design of rate adaptation for relay-assisted satellite hybrid FSO/RF systems

TV Nguyen, HD Le, NT Dang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the design of hybrid free-space optical/radio frequency (FSO/RF)
systems for a high-altitude platform (HAP)-aided relaying satellite communication for mobile …

Safeguarding UAV IoT communication systems against randomly located eavesdroppers

H Lei, D Wang, KH Park, IS Ansari… - IEEE Internet of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be extensively utilized in various Internet of Things
(IoT) scenarios due to their flexible mobility and rapid on-demand deployment. It becomes …

[HTML][HTML] Ergodic sum rate for uplink NOMA transmission in satellite-aerial-ground integrated networks

K Huaicong, LIN Min, J Zhang, J Ouyang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The application of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) technology into
satellite-aerial-ground integrated networks can meet the requirements of ultra-high rate and …

Switching-based cooperative decode-and-forward relaying for hybrid FSO/RF networks

S Sharma, AS Madhukumar - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we propose a switching scheme for a hybrid free-space optical (FSO)/radio
frequency (RF) system with a selective decode-and-forward (DF) relay network. Specifically …

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 …