Throughput characteristics of free-space-optical mobile ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Mehmet Bilgi;Murat Yuksel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, NV, USA;University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, NV, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Wireless networking has conventionally been realized via radio-frequency-based communication technologies. Free-Space-Optical (FSO) communication with an innovative multi-element node design leverages spatially-diverse optical wireless links; making it a viable solution to the well-known diminishing per-node throughput problem in large-scale RF networks. Although it has the advantage of high-speed modulation, maintenance of line-of-sight between two FSO transceivers during a transmission is a crucial problem since FSO transmitters are highly directional. In this paper, we present our simulation efforts to make high-level assessments on throughput characteristics of FSO-MANETs while considering properties of FSO propagation and existence of multiple directional transceivers.