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AuthorYang L.
AuthorYuan J.
AuthorLiu X.
AuthorHasna M.O.
Available date2020-04-25T01:02:22Z
Publication Date2019
Publication NameIEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
ResourceScopus
ISSN189251
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2018.2852399
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/14481
AbstractIn this paper, we propose a low-altitude aerial platform (LAP) based relaying system, where two LAPs serve as relays. More specifically, the air-to-ground links are assumed to be radio frequency (RF) channels experiencing large-scale path loss and small-scale fading, while the link between the two relays is assumed to employ a free-space optical communication scheme. Based on such a setup, we derive closed-form expressions for the outage probability and optimal altitude. Our results show that the optimal altitude of the LAPs plays a crucial role in the system performance. Furthermore, pointing errors has a greater impact on the system performance than the path loss of the RF links.
SponsorThis work was supported in part by the sponsorship agreement in support of research and collaboration by Ooredoo, Doha, Qatar, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant 61671160, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, the open research of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (No. 2019GZKF03004), the Department of Education of Guangdong Province (No. 2016KZDXM050), and the open research fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University (No. 2018D01).
Languageen
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
SubjectFree-space optical (FSO) communication
gamma-gamma distribution
low-altitude platforms (LAPs)
multihop relaying
Rician fading
TitleOn the performance of LAP-based multiple-hop RF/FSO systems
TypeArticle
Pagination499-505
Issue Number1
Volume Number55


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