Extended Field Performance Evaluation of a Gbps FSO Link

Wireless communications have been increasingly important. Besides Wi-Fi, FSO plays a very relevant technological role in this context. Performance is crucial, resulting in more reliable and efficient communications. A FSO medium range link has been successfully implemented for high requirement appli...

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Published ine-Business and Telecommunications pp. 439 - 446
Main Authors de Carvalho, J. A. R. Pacheco, Marques, N., Veiga, H., Pacheco, C. F. Ribeiro, Reis, A. D.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2012
SeriesCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Subjects
FSO
Laser
Performance measurements
Point-to-point link
Wireless network
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Summary:Wireless communications have been increasingly important. Besides Wi-Fi, FSO plays a very relevant technological role in this context. Performance is crucial, resulting in more reliable and efficient communications. A FSO medium range link has been successfully implemented for high requirement applications at Gbps. An extended field performance evaluation of this link has been carried out at OSI layers 1, 4 and 7, through a specifically planned field test arrangement. Measurements have been made both for powers received by the laser heads, and TCP, UDP and FTP experiments, resulting in determinations of TCP throughput, jitter, percentage datagram loss and FTP transfer rate. Corresponding results are presented and discussed. Conclusions are drawn about link performance.
ISBN:9783642252051
3642252052
ISSN:1865-0929
1865-0937
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-25206-8_29