Performance Analysis of ARQ-based RF-FSO Links
Journal article, 2017
In this letter, we study the performance of hybrid radio-frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) links using automatic repeat request (ARQ). We derive closed-form expressions for the message decoding probabilities, throughput, and outage probability with different relative coherence times of the RF and FSO links. We also evaluate the effect of adaptive power allocation between the ARQ retransmissions on the system performance. The results show that joint implementation of the RF and FSO links leads to substantial performance improvement, compared to the cases with only the RF or the FSO link.
RF-FSO networks
Cooperative communications
automatic repeat request
millimeter wave communications
Author
Behrooz Makki
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Kommunikationssystem, informationsteori och antenner
Tommy Svensson
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Kommunikationssystem, informationsteori och antenner
Thomas Eriksson
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Kommunikationssystem, informationsteori och antenner
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
IEEE Communications Letters
1089-7798 (ISSN)
Vol. 21 6 1253-1256 7862222Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Communication Systems
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2672973