Availability analysis of free-space-optical links based on rain rate and visibility statistics from tropical a climate

• Main Authors: Basahel, Ahmed, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Ahmad Zabidi, Suriza, Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/51937/1/1-s2.0-S0030402616309317-main.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/51937/7/51937-Availability%20analysis%20of%20free-space-optical%20links%20based%20on%20rain%20rate_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/51937/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030402616309317

Availability is one of the major parameters to measure the performance of Free Space Optics (FSO) communication link. In tropical climate, rainfall acts as a dominant factor that affects the FSO link availability; whereas haze has no significant effect compare with rain. But for longer FSO link d...