Hybrid FSO/RF networks: A review of practical constraints, applications and challenges

SAH Mohsan, MA Khan, H Amjad - Optical Switching and Networking, 2023 - Elsevier
Radio frequency (RF) spectrum is highly occupied and adding further broadband channels
to fulfill the exiting user requirements has become difficult. Optical free-space …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Novel adaptive hard-switching based hybrid RF-FSO system architecture using two threshold values in the presence of atmospheric turbulence and pointing …

N Nikbakht-Sardari, M Ghiamy, ME Akbari… - Results in …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years and in the ongoing development of all-optical systems, we propose two novel
hard-switching based hybrid RF-FSO system architecture in the presence of atmospheric …

Average capacity analysis of the underwater optical plane wave over anisotropic moderate-to-strong oceanic turbulence channels with the Málaga fading model

G Xu, J Lai - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The scintillation index of plane wave propagation in anisotropic underwater turbulence
under moderate-to-strong turbulent conditions is analyzed in this paper. A closed-form …

Analysis of RIS-assisted FSO systems over F turbulence channel with pointing errors and imperfect CSI

L Han, X Liu, Y Wang, X Hao - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an enabling solution to enhance the wireless
communication system performance by smartly tunning the signal reflection via a large …

Secrecy performance analysis for a NOMA based FSO-RF system with imperfect CSI

Y Zhuang, J Zhang - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we consider a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based mixed free
space optical–radio frequency (FSO-RF) system with imperfect channel state information …

Joint Impact of Channel Estimation Errors and Pointing Errors on FSO Communication Systems Over Turbulence Channel

L Han, X Liu, Y Wang, B Li - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we provide the performance analysis of free-space optical (FSO)
communication systems over Fisher-Snedecor fading channel with estimation errors in the …

On Effective Secrecy Throughput of Underlay Spectrum Sharing / Málaga Hybrid Model Under Interference-and-Transmit Power Constraints

M Ibrahim, ASM Badrudduza, MS Hossen… - IEEE Photonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The underlay cognitive radio-based hybrid radio frequency/free-space optical (RF/FSO)
systems have emerged as a promising technology due to their ability to eliminate spectrum …

Performance evaluation for multi-antenna UWOC-RF NOMA systems with imperfect CSI and SIC

L Feng, J Zhang, H Liu, S Li, J Li, G Pan - Digital Signal Processing, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Information transmission is easily affected by obstacles or other factors, which
makes it challenging to achieve perfect channel state information (CSI) and successive …

Performance of FSO communication systems employing Alamouti-type space-time encoding over Málaga channels with pointing errors

AA Ibrahim, SÖ Ata, L Durak-Ata - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, spatial diversity techniques have been proposed for free-space optical (FSO)
communication systems to combat the deteriorating effects, such as atmospheric turbulence …