FSO/RF Hybrid Network Availability Analysis Under Different Weather Condition

Author

Nadeem, F. ; Leitgeb, E. ; Awan, M.S. ; Kandus, G.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Broadband Commun., Tech. Univ. of Graz, Graz, Austria

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

239

Lastpage

244

Abstract

Free space Optic (FSO) links have the tremendous potential to fulfil high data rate requirements of future communication applications. However, the widespread growth of FSO has been hampered by availability and reliability issues. FSO links are highly weather dependent and attenuating factor like fog causes reduced link availability for considerable amount of time. The alternate solution is to use RF back up links that are less susceptible to weather attenuations. In this paper, the availability of hybrid FSO/RF network has been analyzed under different weather attenuating condition like fog, rain and snow. The availability analysis has been performed using measured attenuation data.

Keywords

attenuation measurement; optical links; FSO/RF hybrid network availability analysis; atmospheric attenuation; attenuation measurement; free space optic; weather attenuating condition; Attenuation; Availability; Biomedical optical imaging; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Radio frequency; Rain; Snow; Space technology; Video on demand; Availability; FSO; Fog; RF; Rain; Simulation; Snow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2009. NGMAST '09. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cardiff, Wales

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3786-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NGMAST.2009.34

Filename

5337558