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Performance Evaluation of Free Space Optical Link Under Various Weather Conditions

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Free space optics (FSO) is emerging as a viable complementary technology to address the need for larger bandwidth and high data rate at affordable cost. FSO communication systems face severe link availability and reliability challenges under different weather conditions, and this is a limitation for the wide-scale acceptability of the FSO technology. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fog, snow, and rain on FSO link, and hence evaluate the performance of the FSO system for various weather conditions. It is analyzed that bit error rate (BER) and link margin of FSO system are very poor for heavy fog, rain, and snow. However, decreasing the data rate for a particular weather condition can improve both these performance parameters.

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  1. Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering, ITM University, Sec 23A, Gurgaon, 122017, Haryana, India

    Monika Singh, Saloni Bhatia & Hemani Kaushal

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Visakhapatnam, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  2. Department of CSE, CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, India

    K. Srujan Raju

  3. Computer Science & Engineering, Kalyani University, Nadia, West Bengal, India

    Jyotsna Kumar Mandal

  4. Electronics and Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vikrant Bhateja

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Singh, M., Bhatia, S., Kaushal, H. (2016). Performance Evaluation of Free Space Optical Link Under Various Weather Conditions. In: Satapathy, S., Raju, K., Mandal, J., Bhateja, V. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer and Communication Technologies. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 379. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2517-1_33

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