Outage Behavior of a MISO Wireless Optical Link with Pointing and Tracking Errors

Author

Liu, Xian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Eng., Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the outage behavior of optical inter-satellite communication links. The main issues addressed in the present work are: (1) source-induced fading, (2) statistically correlated fading, (3) transmitter diversity, (4) selection combining, and (5) equal gain combining. It is shown that (i) the merit of combining is obvious when the correlation coefficient is less than 0.5, (ii) the EGC scheme gives better performance than the SC scheme, and (iii) the long wavelength gives better performance than the short wavelength.

Keywords

correlation methods; diversity reception; fading; optical links; optical transmitters; pointing systems; probability; satellite links; tracking; EGC scheme; MISO wireless optical link; correlation coefficient; equal gain combining; optical intersatellite communication link; outage behavior; pointing error; selection combining; source induced fading; statistically correlated fading; tracking error; transmitter diversity; Adaptive optics; Diversity reception; Fading; Optical fiber communication; Optical transmitters; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-232-5

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/icc.2011.5963338

Filename

5963338