Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures. Third International Conference, FABULOUS 2017, Bucharest, Romania, October 12-14, 2017, Proceedings

Research Article

Performance Improvement of a Multi-head Optical Wireless Communication System

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-92213-3_30,
        author={Viorel Manea and Sorin Puşcoci and Dan Stoichescu},
        title={Performance Improvement of a Multi-head Optical Wireless Communication System},
        proceedings={Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures. Third International Conference, FABULOUS 2017, Bucharest, Romania, October 12-14, 2017, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={FABULOUS},
        year={2018},
        month={7},
        keywords={Free space optics Adaptive optics Multi-head transceiver},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-92213-3_30}
    }
    
  • Viorel Manea
    Sorin Puşcoci
    Dan Stoichescu
    Year: 2018
    Performance Improvement of a Multi-head Optical Wireless Communication System
    FABULOUS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92213-3_30
Viorel Manea1,*, Sorin Puşcoci1,*, Dan Stoichescu2,*
  • 1: INSCC Bucharest
  • 2: University Politechnica Bucharest
*Contact email: viorel.manea@inscc.ro, sorin.puscoci@inscc.ro, dan_stoich@yahoo.com

Abstract

Free space optics represents a fast and economical method to transmit digital data at the speed of the order of the Gbps at a distance of a few kilometers. The major limitation is the atmospheric attenuation, especially fog, which can affect the quality of transmission, transfer rate and transmission distance. A useful metric to monitorize the processes is the BER factor. This paper proposes a combination of adaptive optics that use multiple heads of transmission which are focused simultaneously on a single photodetector at the receiver end, in order to provide redundancy and to sustain a minimum data-rate transfer and/or assuring a transmission distance at an acceptable BER. It is assessed, through the simulation, the optimal (technically and economically) number of optical transmitters for which we get a real quality improvement of the transmission for a given bitrate-distance factors.