Optical camera communications: Survey, use cases, challenges, and future trends

N Saeed, S Guo, KH Park, TY Al-Naffouri… - Physical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, a camera or an image sensor receiver based optical wireless communications
(OWC) techniques have attracted particular interest in areas such as the internet of things …

Optimal positioning of hovering UAV relays for mitigation of pointing error in free-space optical communications

MS Bashir, MS Alouini - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The relay positions or hop distances in a multi-hop relaying scheme is an important
parameter that can be optimized in order to mitigate the angle-of-arrival variance or pointing …

Energy optimization of a laser-powered hovering-UAV relay in optical wireless backhaul

MS Bashir, MS Alouini - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to their flexibility and low cost deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will most
likely act as base stations and backhaul relays in the next generation of wireless …

Optimal power allocation between beam tracking and symbol detection channels in a free-space optical communications receiver

MS Bashir, MS Alouini - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Free-space optical (FSO) communications will play an important role in the backhaul of
future generation of wireless networks in order to support high data rates. Because of narrow …

Signal acquisition with photon-counting detector arrays in free-space optical communications

MS Bashir, MS Alouini - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pointing and acquisition are an important aspect of free-space optical communications
because of the narrow beamwidth associated with the optical signal. In this paper, we have …

Free-space optical communications with detector arrays: A mathematical analysis

MS Bashir - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photon counting detector arrays are commonly used for free-space optical communications
in deep space. Such detector arrays-by virtue of their size-help in the collection of the optical …

A robust and precise centroid positioning method for the weak beacon spot in long-distance inter-satellite optical wireless communications

Q Wang, L Cui, X Wang, L Tan, J Ma - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The centroid estimation of the beacon spot is crucial to the pointing, acquisition, and tracking
subsystem in inter-satellite optical wireless communication (IsOWC), especially for the …

Optical beam position tracking in free-space optical communication systems

MS Bashir, MR Bell - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical beam position on a detector array is an important parameter for optimal symbol
detection in a free-space optical communication system; hence it is essential to accurately …

Data combining schemes for a detector array receiver in free-space optical communications

MC Tsai, MS Bashir, MS Alouini - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An array of detectors is widely used in deep space optical communications for both fine
beam tracking and symbol detection. In this paper, we have analyzed and compared the …

Time synchronization in photon-limited deep space optical communications

MS Bashir, SS Muhammad - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Random jitter or offset between the transmitter/receiver clocks is an important parameter that
has to be accurately estimated for optimal detection of pulse position modulation (PPM) …