TY - JOUR
T1 - Practical Switching-Based Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission and Its Performance Analysis
AU - Usman, Muneer
AU - Yang, Hong-Chuan
AU - Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - Hybrid free-space optical (FSO)/radio-frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising solution for high-data-rate wireless backhaul. We present and analyze a switching-based transmission scheme for the hybrid FSO/RF system. Specifically, either the FSO or RF link will be active at a certain time instance, with the FSO link enjoying a higher priority. We considered both a single-threshold case and a dual-threshold case for FSO link operation. Analytical expressions have been obtained for the outage probability, average bit error rate, and ergodic capacity for the resulting system. Numerical examples are presented to compare the performance of the hybrid scheme with the FSO-only scenario.
AB - Hybrid free-space optical (FSO)/radio-frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising solution for high-data-rate wireless backhaul. We present and analyze a switching-based transmission scheme for the hybrid FSO/RF system. Specifically, either the FSO or RF link will be active at a certain time instance, with the FSO link enjoying a higher priority. We considered both a single-threshold case and a dual-threshold case for FSO link operation. Analytical expressions have been obtained for the outage probability, average bit error rate, and ergodic capacity for the resulting system. Numerical examples are presented to compare the performance of the hybrid scheme with the FSO-only scenario.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/346768
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6887284
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84907191039&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2352629
DO - 10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2352629
M3 - Article
SN - 1943-0655
VL - 6
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - IEEE Photonics Journal
JF - IEEE Photonics Journal
IS - 5
ER -