Hybrid FSO/RF networks: A review of practical constraints, applications and challenges

SAH Mohsan, MA Khan, H Amjad - Optical Switching and Networking, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Radio frequency (RF) spectrum is highly occupied and adding further broadband channels
to fulfill the exiting user requirements has become difficult. Optical free-space …

A survey of hybrid free space optics (FSO) communication networks to achieve 5G connectivity for backhauling

O Aboelala, IE Lee, GC Chung - Entropy, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Increased capacity, higher data rate, decreased latency, and better service quality are
examples of the primary objectives or needs that must be catered to in the near future, ie …

Roadmap to free space optics

A Trichili, MA Cox, BS Ooi, MS Alouini - JOSA B, 2020‏ - opg.optica.org
With the ever-increasing demand for data and the radio frequency spectrum becoming
congested, free space optics (FSO) may find a niche for situations where fiber is too …

Practical switching-based hybrid FSO/RF transmission and its performance analysis

M Usman, HC Yang, MS Alouini - IEEE Photonics journal, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Adaptive-combining-based hybrid FSO/RF satellite communication with and without HAPS

S Shah, M Siddharth, N Vishwakarma… - IEEE …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, a growing interest has been witnessed in the usage of free space optics
(FSO) link for satellite communication (SATCOM) scenarios, as it offers much higher data …

Outage analysis of practical FSO/RF hybrid system with adaptive combining

T Rakia, HC Yang, MS Alouini… - IEEE Communications …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid free-space optical (FSO)/radio-frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising
solution for high-data-rate wireless transmission. We present and analyze a transmission …

Mixed mmWave RF/FSO relaying systems over generalized fading channels with pointing errors

PV Trinh, TC Thang, AT Pham - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the performance of mixed millimeter-wave radio-frequency (mmWave
RF), free-space optics (FSO) systems in a highly scalable and cost-effective solution for fifth …

Performance analysis of a UAV-based IRS-assisted hybrid RF/FSO link with pointing and phase shift errors

S Malik, P Saxena, YH Chung - Journal of Optical …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted wireless communication has recently become a
promising technology to relax the line-of-sight requirement and also to provide a …

Mixed RF/FSO relaying with outdated channel state information

GT Djordjevic, MI Petkovic… - IEEE Journal on …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the outage probability and the average bit error rate (BER) performance of a
dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying system, composed of a mixed radio frequency …

Switching-based cooperative decode-and-forward relaying for hybrid FSO/RF networks

S Sharma, AS Madhukumar - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2019‏ - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we propose a switching scheme for a hybrid free-space optical (FSO)/radio
frequency (RF) system with a selective decode-and-forward (DF) relay network. Specifically …