On the Performance of RF-FSO Links with and without Hybrid ARQ
Journal article, 2016
This paper studies the performance of hybrid radio frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) links assuming perfect channel state information (CSI) at the receiver. Considering the cases with and without hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ), 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 adaptive power allocation and different channel conditions on
the throughput and the outage probability. The results show the efficiency of the RF-FSO links in different conditions.
outage probability
hybrid links
free-space optical (FSO) communication
hybrid automatic repeat request
millimeter wave radio frequency communication
throughput
Adaptive power allocation
Author
Behrooz Makki
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Tommy Svensson
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Thomas Eriksson
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
15361276 (ISSN) 15582248 (eISSN)
Vol. 15 7 4928-4943 7445896Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
Subject Categories
Communication Systems
DOI
10.1109/TWC.2016.2549537