On the Performance of Millimeter Wave-based RF-FSO Links with HARQ Feedback
Paper in proceeding, 2016
This paper studies the performance of hybrid radio-frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) links in the cases with and without hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). Considering millimeter wave (mmwave) characteristics in the RF link and pointing errors in the FSO link, we derive closed-form expressions for the message decoding probabilities as well as the throughput and the outage probability of the RF-FSO setups. We also evaluate the effect of various parameters such as power amplifiers efficiency, different transmission techniques in the FSO link, pointing errors in the FSO link as well as different coherence times/symbol rates of the RF and the FSO links on the throughput and outage probability. The results show the efficiency of the RF-FSO links in different conditions. Moreover, the HARQ can effectively improve the outage probability/energy efficiency, and compensate the effect of hardware impairments in RF-FSO links.
communication
Engineering
networks
capacity
systems
throughput
protocols
channel state information
Telecommunications
Author
Behrooz Makki
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Tommy Svensson
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC
21669570 (ISSN) 21669589 (eISSN)
Vol. 0 937-942Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for Fifth Generation Integrated Communications (mmMAGIC)
European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/671650), 2015-07-01 -- 2017-06-30.
Roots
Basic sciences
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794713