Abstract
This letter investigates the multiuser downlink transmission performance of an asymmetric free space optical (FSO)/radio frequency (RF) link. Here, the satellite delivers signal to the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) through a FSO link subject to Gamma-Gamma distributed turbulence, while the UAV forwards the decoded signal to multiple users through RF links characterzied by the correlated Rayleigh fading channel. By adopting that the selective decode-and-forward (DF) protocol at the UAV, we derive a closed-form expression for ergodic capacity (EC) of the considered system, where the RF link exploits transmit beamforming (BF) based on statistical channel state information (CSI) to obtain better performance than single antenna scenarios in existing works. Then, with the help of the derived EC and the available statistical CSI, a novel proportional fair scheduling (PFS) scheme is proposed. Finally, numerical results are conducted to verify the correctness of the theoretical analysis and the superiorty of the proposed scheduling scheme.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-1 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2020 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: This work is supported by the Key International Cooperation Research Project under Grant 61720106003, and Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province under Grant KYCX 0950.