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Atmospheric turbulence generally limits free-space optical (FSO) communications, and this problem is severely exacerbated when implementing highly sensitive and spectrally efficient coherent detection. Specifically, turbulence induces power…

In recent years, free space optical (FSO) communication has gained significant importance owing to its unique features: large bandwidth, license free spectrum, high data rate, easy and quick deployability, less power and low mass…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Hemani Kaushal , Georges Kaddoum

A unified statistical model is proposed to characterize turbulence-induced fading in underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) channels in the presence of air bubbles and temperature gradient for fresh and salty waters, based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Emna Zedini , Hassan M. Oubei , Abla Kammoun , Mounir Hamdi , Boon S. Ooi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we investigate the performance of the dual-hop free space optical (FSO) communication systems under the effect of strong atmospheric turbulence together with misalignment effects (pointing error). We consider a relay assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Neha Mishra , D. Sriram Kumar , Pranav Kumar Jha

Free-space optical communication is emerging as a low-power, low-cost, and high data rate alternative to radio-frequency communication in short-to medium-range applications. However, it requires a close-to-line-of-sight link between the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 I. N'Doye , W. Cai , A. Alalwan , X. Sun , W. G. Headary , M. -S. Alouini , B. -S. Ooi , T. -M. Laleg-Kirati

In this letter, the performance of multiuser-radio frequency/free space optics (RF/FSO) two-way relay network in the presence of interference is investigated. The FSO link accounts for pointing errors and both types of detection techniques,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Abhijeet Upadhya , Vivek K. Dwivedi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Underwater optical communication (UWOC) is a potential solution for broadband connectivity in oceans and seas for underwater applications providing high data rate transmission with low latency and high reliability. Recent measurement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Suhrid Das , Ziyaur Rahman , S. M. Zafaruddin

Recently, free-space optical (FSO) communication systems have obtained a wide range of applications for communications between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) because they offer several advantages with respect to the traditional RF…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Seyed Mohammad Sajad Sadough , Himan Savojbolaghchi

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based communications is a promising new technology that can add a wide range of new capabilities to the current network infrastructure. Given the flexibility, cost-efficiency, and convenient use of UAVs, they…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Hedieh Ajam , Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communications have been proposed as a critical part of the beyond fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks. This type of communications is frequently characterized by line-of-sight (LoS) and dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Petros S. Bithas , Viktor Nikolaidis , Athanasios G. Kanatas , George K. Karagiannidis

The free-space optical (FSO) communication links with orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing have been demonstrated that they can largely enhance the systems' capacity without a corresponding increase in spectral bandwidth, but the…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-30 Shengmei Zhao , Bei Wang , Li Zhou , Longyan Gong , Wenwen Cheng , Yubo Sheng , Baoyu Zheng

This paper develops a comprehensive analytical framework for modeling and performance evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-to-ground quantum communication links, incorporating key physical impairments such as beam divergence,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Mazen Hasna , Saif Al-Kuwari , Khalid Qaraqe

Free-space optical (FSO) links are considered as a cost-efficient way to fill the backhaul/fronthaul connectivity gap between millimeter wave (mmWave) access networks and optical fiber based central networks. In this paper, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yan Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Liang Yang , Bo Ai , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

One of the major challenges for long range, high speed Free-Space Optical (FSO) communication is turbulence induced beam wander. Beam wander causes fluctuations in the received intensity as well as crosstalk in mode division multiplexed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-25 Mitchell A. Cox , Lucas Gailele , Ling Cheng , Andrew Forbes

In the design of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless communications, a better understanding of propagation characteristics and an accurate channel model are required. Measurements and comprehensive analysis for the UAV-based air-ground…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Cesar Briso-Rodriguez , Ke Guan , Cesar Calvo-Ramirez , Bo Ai , Zhangdui Zhong

In this paper, we investigate a dual-hop relaying system, composed of radio frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) link. Decode-and-forward (DF) relay is employed to integrate the first RF link and the second line-of-sight FSO links.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Milica I. Petkovic , Predrag N. Ivanis , Goran T. Djordjevic

In this work, we present a unified performance analysis of a free-space optical (FSO) link that accounts for pointing errors and both types of detection techniques (i.e. intensity modulation/direct detection (IM/DD) as well as heterodyne…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Imran Shafique Ansari , Ferkan Yilmaz , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Perfect channel estimation is very hard, time/ power consuming, and expensive; so it is not preferred (e.g. in mobile) communication systems. This paper seeks for new, cheap, low complexity, deep learning based solution. Several new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 M. A. Amirabadi

Nowadays, the subsistent anisotropic non-Kolmogorov (ANK) turbulence models are all established on the supposition that the long axis of turbulence cell ought to be level with the ground. Nevertheless, Beason et al. and Wang et al. have…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Chao Zhai , Zhenyuan Xue

Accurate characterization of free-space optical (FSO) channels requires joint estimation of transmitter pointing errors, receiver angle-of-arrival (AoA) fluctuations, and turbulence-induced fading. However, existing literature addresses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Meysam Ghanbari , Rula Ammuri , Mazen Hasna , Khalid Qaraqe