Multiuser dual-hop relaying over mixed RF/FSO links
Paper in proceeding, 2014

The performance of multiuser dual-hop relaying over mixed radio frequency/free-space optical (RF/FSO) links is investigated. RF links are used for the simultaneous data transmission from m single-antenna sources to the relay, which is equipped with n ≥ m receive antennas and a photo-aperture transmitter. The relay operates under the decode-and-forward protocol and utilizes the popular ordered V-BLAST technique to successively decode each user's transmitted stream. A common norm-based ordering approach is adopted, where the streams are decoded in an ascending order. After the V-BLAST decoding, the relay retransmits the initial information to the destination, which is equipped with a photo-detector, via a point-to-point FSO link in m consecutive timeslots. Analytical expressions for the end-to-end outage probability and average symbol error probability of each user are derived. Some engineering insights are manifested, such as the diversity order, the impact of the pointing error displacement on the FSO link and the severity on the turbulence-induced channel fading.

Author

N. I. Miridakis

University of Piraeus

Michail Matthaiou

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

G. K. Karagiannidis

Khalifa University

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014

3389-3394
978-147992003-7 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2014.6883845

ISBN

978-147992003-7

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10/8/2017