Effect of Environmental Parameters on the Performance of Optical Wireless Communications

Free space optical communication systems are the future of the communication systems which can meet the needs of the end users who are demanding high bandwidths to support high-speed communication. These merits are due to its numerous advantages as well as their better performance. This paper studie...

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Published inInternational Journal of Optics Vol. 2019; no. 2019; pp. 1 - 12
Main Authors Ali, Hosam Abd Elrazek Mohamed, Yousef, Mohamed Ebrahim, Said, El-Sayed Soliman A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2019
Hindawi
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Hindawi Limited
Wiley
Subjects
Atmospheric attenuation
Communication channels
Communications systems
Dust
End users
Engineering
Fog
Free-space optical communication
Haze
Optical wireless
Optics
Parameters
Rain
Signal processing
Simulation
Systems analysis
Transmitters
Visibility
Wave attenuation
Weather
Wireless communications
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Summary:Free space optical communication systems are the future of the communication systems which can meet the needs of the end users who are demanding high bandwidths to support high-speed communication. These merits are due to its numerous advantages as well as their better performance. This paper studies the effect of environmental parameters like rain, fog, haze, snow, and dust on the performance of optical wireless communications using Opti-system program. This work considers the effect of visibility as well as operating wavelengths on atmospheric attenuation in different weather conditions for free space optical link. For different weather conditions the max distance between transmitter and receiver can also be estimated. The system analysis depicted the better performance of the Multi-Input/Multi-Output (MIMO) configurations compared to Single Input/Single Output (SISO) at different weather conditions.
ISSN:1687-9384
1687-9392
DOI:10.1155/2019/1828275