Aug 2026· Engineering Research Express· Vol 8, pp. 165301· 0 citations· 42 references
Physics
TL;DR
This paper investigates the performance of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted free-space optical (FSO) communication system employing rate-splitting multiple access using the Gamma–Gamma fading distribution, offering valuable guidance for the optimization of IRS-assisted FSO networks.
Abstract
This paper investigates the performance of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted free-space optical (FSO) communication system employing rate-splitting multiple access. The FSO channel is modeled using the Gamma–Gamma fading distribution while accounting for pointing errors and supporting both heterodyne detection and intensity modulation with direct detection. Closed-form expressions for critical performance metrics, including outage probability, average bit error rate, and average capacity, are derived and validated through numerical simulations. The analysis incorporates essential factors such as attenuation ( α), atmospheric turbulence ( β), and pointing error ( ζ), along with various power allocation strategies. The findings highlight the substantial impact of these parameters on system performance, offering valuable guidance for the optimization of IRS-assisted FSO networks.
This paper investigates the outage performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted free-space optical (FSO) communication systems operating in foggy channels. The analysis jointly accounts for atmospheric turbulence, fog-induced attenuation, generalized Beckmann-distributed pointing errors (PE), and angle-of-arri...
Mahdi Ataee, S. M. Sadough, Khadijeh Ali Mahmoodi· EAI Endorsed Transactions on...· 0 citations
This paper investigates the performance of a satellite-terrestrial communication system employing rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to accommodate multiple users and concludes that RSMA yields significant improvements over conventional non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with respect to spectral efficiency and in...
Hong-Nhu Nguyen, Quang-Sang Nguyen, T. N. Nguyen· PLoS ONE· 0 citations
Integrating optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) into aerial platforms, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has been proposed to relax the line-of-sight (LoS) constraint, extend coverage, and enhance deployment flexibility of free space optical (FSO) systems. However, misalignment errors induced by the U...
Ferdaous Tarhouni, V. Papanikolaou, L. Cottatellucci et al.· 0 citations
Free-space optical (FSO) communication has emerged as a promising technology for inter-satellite links (ISLs) due to its high data rate, low power consumption, and reduced interference. In inter-satellite FSO systems, pointing error is the dominant channel impairment, arising from stochastic jitter and deterministic mi...
Minje Kim, Hongjae Nam, Beomsoo Ko et al.· IEEE Transactions on Communi...· 1 citation
Free-space optical (FSO) communication has emerged as a promising technology, but its performance is highly dependent on line-of-sight (LOS) conditions. To address this limitation, we propose a multistage optical intelligent reflecting surface (OIRS)-assisted FSO communication system, which utilizes multiple OIRS nodes...
Shunyuan Shang, Emna Zedini, A. Kammoun et al.· IEEE Transactions on Wireles...· 0 citations
This letter investigates a fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted downlink rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) scheme in the finite blocklength regime. A single traditional antenna system (TAS) base station serves FAS-equipped central and cell-edge users, each with $N$ reconfigurable ports. Spatial correlation among por...
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