Optical Wireless Link Availability and Bit Error Ratio

Author

Kvicala, R.

Author_Institution

Brno Univ. of Technol., Brno

fYear

2007

fDate

24-25 April 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this article the determination of the time ratio of the optical wireless link (OWL) availability is considered. The possibility how to realize the bit error rate tester with El/Tl interface is presented. By means of this indicator we are able to establish the bit error ratio (BER) of the specific optical link and the percentage of link unavailability. We can determine these parameters for arbitrary time period. The influence of atmospheric attenuation on links parameters listed above is interesting. In this article the statistics of meteorological visibility for the year 2006 is also stated. With these data we can determine the percentage that the certain value of atmospheric attenuation occurs. Eventually it is shown that not only meteorological visibility is important for the OWL function.

Keywords

error statistics; optical links; arbitrary time period; atmospheric attenuation; bit error ratio; meteorological visibility; optical wireless link; Atmosphere; Atmospheric waves; Attenuation; Bit error rate; Meteorology; OWL; Optical attenuators; Optical beams; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Meteorological visibility; bit error ratio (BER); optical wireless link (OWL); percentage of unavailability; period of unavailability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radioelektronika, 2007. 17th International Conference

Conference_Location

Brno

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0821-0

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0822-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADIOELEK.2007.371433

Filename

4234182