Abstract
Because of its high directivity, free-space optical (FSO) communication offers a number of advantages. It can, however, give rise to major system difficulties concerning alignment between two terminals. During the link-acquisition step (a.k.a. coarse pointing), a ground station can be prevented from acquiring optical links due to pointing errors and insufficient information about unmanned aerial vehicle locations. We propose, in this letter, a radio-frequency (RF) lens antenna array to increase the performance of coarse pointing in hybrid RF/FSO communications. The proposed algorithm using a novel closed-form angle estimator, compared to conventional methods, reduces the minimum outage probability by over a thousand times.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 240-244 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 Feb 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by IITP Grant funded by the Korea Government (MSIT) through Free Space Optical Communication Based Vertical Mobile Network under Grant 2019-0-00685 and High Accurate Positioning Enabled MIMO Transmission and Network Technologies for Next 5G-V2X Services under Grant 2016-0-00208.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 IEEE.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering