Modeling and Experimental Study of the Vibration Effects in Urban Free-Space Optical Communication Systems

Wenqi Cai, Ibrahima Ndoye, Boon S. Ooi, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati

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Abstract

Free-space optical (FSO) communication, considered as a last-mile technology, is widely used in many urban scenarios. However, the performance of urban free-space optical (UFSO) communication systems fades in the presence of system vibration caused by many factors in the chaotic urban environment. In this paper, we develop a dedicated indoor vibration platform and atmospheric turbulence to estimate the Bifurcated-Gaussian (B-G) distribution model of the receiver optical power under different vibration levels and link distances using nonlinear iteration method. Mean square error (MSE) and coefficient of determination ($R^2$) metrics have been used to show a good agreement between the PDFs of the experimental data with the resulting B-G distribution model. Besides, the UFSO channel under the effects of both vibration and atmospheric turbulence is also explored under three atmospheric turbulence conditions. Our proposed B-G distribution model describes the vibrating UFSO channels properly and can easily help to perform and evaluate the link performance of UFSO systems, e.g., bit-error-rate (BER), outage probability. Furthermore, this work paves the way for constructing completed auxiliary control subsystems for robust UFSO links and contributes to more extensive optical communication scenarios, such as underwater optical communication, etc.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1-13
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Photonics Journal
Volume11
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 4 2019

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Special Initiative (KKI) Program

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