Mixed Coded RF/FSO EH-based Communication System subject to Multiuser interference and Residual hardware impairments

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 11; p. 1
• Main Authors: Labghough, Souad, Ayoub, Fouad, Bouanani, Faissal El, Belkasmi, Mostafa, Qaraqe, Khalid A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.01.2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 5G mobile communication; Atmospheric turbulence; Average Bit Error Probability; convolutional self orthogonal codes; Decoding; Energy Harvesting; Error analysis; Hardware; Interference; majority logic decoding; Maximal-Ratio Combining; Mixed RF/FSO system; Málaga-<italic xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">M channels; Málaga-M channels; Nakagami-<italic xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">m fading channels; Optical wavelength conversion; Outages; Radio frequency; Relay; Relays; Residual Hardware Impairments; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication; Wireless communication systems

This study investigated the end-to-end performance of a coded dual-hop RF/FSO wireless communication system that operates across both Nakagami- m fading and Málaga- M atmospheric turbulence channels and are supplied with an amplify-and-forward semi-blind energy harvesting fixed-gain relay. Interesti...