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 …

A comprehensive survey on hybrid wireless networks: practical considerations, challenges, applications and research directions

SAH Mohsan, H Amjad - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2021 - Springer
Wireless communication refers to data transfer in an unguided propagation medium through
wireless carriers such as visible light (VL) and radio frequency (RF). The rapidly growing …

HAPS selection for hybrid RF/FSO satellite networks

OB Yahia, E Erdogan, GK Kurt… - … on Aerospace and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonterrestrial networks have been attracting much interest from the industry and academia.
Satellites and high-altitude platform station (HAPS) systems are expected to be the key …

A weather-dependent hybrid RF/FSO satellite communication for improved power efficiency

OB Yahia, E Erdogan, GK Kurt… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have shown that satellite communication (SatCom) will have a fundamental
role in the next generation non-terrestrial networks (NTN). In SatCom, radio frequency (RF) …

UAV-assisted underwater sensor networks using RF and optical wireless links

P Agheli, H Beyranvand, MJ Emadi - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) are of interest to gather data from underwater sensor
nodes (SNs) and deliver information to a terrestrial access point (AP) in the uplink …

Optimal relay selection for the parallel hybrid RF/FSO relay channel: Non-buffer-aided and buffer-aided designs

M Najafi, V Jamali, R Schober - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid radio frequency (RF)/free space optical (FSO) systems are among the candidate
enabling technologies for the next generation of wireless networks, since they benefit from …

Effect of pointing errors on the performance of hybrid FSO/RF networks

S Sharma, AS Madhukumar, R Swaminathan - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of a free space optics (FSO) transmission suffers from the atmospheric
turbulence and the attenuation in foggy environment. By employing relay nodes, the error …

Performance analysis of UAV-assisted hybrid FSO/RF communication systems under various weather conditions

Y Wu, D Kong, Q Wang, G Li - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems are commonly
considered as one of the key enabling technologies for 6G. The hybrid free space optical …

Secrecy performance analysis of parallel FSO/mm-wave system over unified Fisher-Snedecor channels

WMR Shakir, MS Alouini - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a secrecy performance analysis of a parallel free-space
optical/millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication system with a selection-combining …