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High efficiency wireless optical links in high transmission speed wireless optical communication networks
Author(s) -
Rashed Ahmed Nabih Zaki
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.2550
Subject(s) - optical wireless , computer science , wireless , optical link , fixed wireless , bit error rate , transmission (telecommunications) , bottleneck , computer network , free space optical communication , gigabit , bandwidth (computing) , wireless network , optical communication , optical wireless communications , telecommunications , wi fi array , electronic engineering , channel (broadcasting) , embedded system , optical fiber , engineering
SUMMARY Power link budgets are prepared for wireless optical communication systems to illustrate the optical losses that happen during transmission. This paper has presented optical wireless links, which offer ultra multi gigabit per second data rates and low system complexity. For ground space and/or terrestrial communication systems, these links suffer from atmospheric loss mainly due to fog, and scintillation. Optical wireless links provide high bandwidth solution to the last mile access bottleneck. However, an appreciable availability of the link is always a concern. Wireless optical links are highly weather dependent, and fog is the major attenuating factor reducing the link availability. Link margin, received signal power, transmission bit rate, bit rate distance product, signal‐to‐noise ratio, and BER are the major interesting design parameters in the current study. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.