The free space optical communication systems attract the last few years very significant research and commercial interest due to their high performance and low operational cost. The main problem of this technology is the influence of the atmospheric conditions on the reliability and the efficiency of the link. Giving that, in some cases the weather conditions can interrupt the link, the hybrid free space/millimeter wave systems have been proposed. These systems are using the free space optical link as the main communication system and when this is not possible they use the millimeter wave link as a backup component. This way, the availability of the link increases. In this work, we investigate the performance of such communication systems by evaluating the average capacity of the link. We derive close form mathematical expressions for the estimation of the lower bound and the total average capacity of the whole hybrid system and we study the influence of the link’s parameters in its performance.
3rd Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (MIC-CPE 2010)
Congress
2010 Global Congress on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (GC-CPE 2010), 5-7 March 2010, Amman, Jordan
Pages
28-33
Topics
Communication Channels Free-Space Optical Communications
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{423CPE2010,
title={Average Capacity Estimation of Hybrid FSO/MMW Wireless Communication Systems},
author={Hector E. Nistazakis, and George S. Tombras, and , and Andreas Tsigopoulos, and },
booktitle={2010 Global Congress on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (GC-CPE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={28-33},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
