Journal
IEEE ACCESS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages 19942-19950Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2753178
Keywords
Amplify-and-forward; atmospheric turbulence; co-channel interference; fiber nonlinearity; free-space optics (FSO); modulator clipping; pointing errors
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- Telus Corporation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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The inherently high bandwidth of fiber and free-space optical (FSO) links make them ideally suited to provide broadband backhaul in fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks. However, both fiber and FSO systems suffer from a variety of impairments, which must be properly modeled in order to design the network. In this paper, we present analytical results for mixed FSO/fiber amplify-and-forward backhauling systems, where the impacts of radio-frequency (RF) co-channel interference, FSO pointing errors, and both fiber and FSO modulator nonlinearity are modeled and taken into consideration. Closed-form and asymptotic expressions are derived for the outage probability, the average bit-error rate, and the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the channel capacity for mixed FSO/fiber backhauling systems. Our results reveal an optimal average-launched power for the fiber, which balances the impact of fiber nonlinear distortion with the receiver noise. In particular, when using the optimal fiber average-launched power, our estimated user capacity CDF results show that the 50th percentile user rates using mm-wave RF access can reach over 1.5 Gb/s in ideal conditions. However, user rates are more sensitive to the FSO backhaul channel characteristics.
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