On the Performance of Millimeter Wave-based RF-FSO Multi-hop and Mesh Networks
dc.contributor.author | Makki, Behrooz | |
dc.contributor.author | Svensson, Tommy | |
dc.contributor.author | Brandt-Pearce, Maite | |
dc.contributor.author | Alouini, Mohamed-Slim | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-15T06:35:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-15T06:35:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-09-22 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Makki B, Svensson T, Brandt-Pearce M, Alouini M-S (2017) On the Performance of Millimeter Wave-Based RF-FSO Multi-Hop and Mesh Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 16: 7746–7759. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/twc.2017.2753225. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1536-1276 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/twc.2017.2753225 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10754/626795 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper studies the performance of multi-hop and mesh networks composed of millimeter wave-based radio frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) links. The results are obtained in cases with and without hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). Using the central limit theorem as well as other state-of-the-art approximation schemes, we derive closed-form expressions for the networks’ outage probability and ergodic achievable rates. We also evaluate the effect of various parameters such as power amplifiers efficiency, number of antennas as well as different coherence times of the RF and the FSO links on the system performance. Finally, we determine the minimum number of the transmit antennas in the RF link such that the same rate is supported in the RF- and the FSO-based hops. The results show the efficiency of the RF-FSO setups in different conditions. Moreover, HARQ can effectively improve the outage probability/energy efficiency, and compensate for the effect of hardware impairments in RF-FSO networks. For common parameter settings of the RF-FSO dual-hop networks, outage probability of 10−4 and code rate of 3 nats-per-channel-use, the implementation of HARQ with a maximum of 2 and 3 retransmissions reduces the required power, compared to cases with open-loop communication, by 13 and 17 dB, respectively. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported in part by the European Commission H2020 Programme 5G PPP mmMAGIC project under Grant No. 671650, and in part by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) within the VINN Excellence Center Chase. This work was presented at the IEEE WCNC 2017. The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was L. K. Rasmussen. | |
dc.publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | |
dc.relation.url | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048557/ | |
dc.subject | Millimeter wave communications | |
dc.subject | free-space optical communications | |
dc.subject | RF-FSO links | |
dc.subject | multi-hop networks | |
dc.subject | mesh networks | |
dc.subject | HARQ | |
dc.title | On the Performance of Millimeter Wave-based RF-FSO Multi-hop and Mesh Networks | |
dc.type | Conference Paper | |
dc.contributor.department | Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division | |
dc.contributor.department | Electrical Engineering Program | |
dc.identifier.journal | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | |
dc.conference.date | MAR 19-22, 2017 | |
dc.conference.name | IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) | |
dc.conference.location | San Francisco, CA | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 58 Göteborg, Sweden | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 USA | |
kaust.person | Alouini, Mohamed-Slim | |
dc.date.published-online | 2017-09-22 | |
dc.date.published-print | 2017-12 |
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