Paper Info
Title
Maintaining a free-space-optical communication link between two autonomous mobiles
Abstract
Free-Space-Optical (FSO) communication has the potential to not only deliver wireless communication links at optical-level speeds but also solve the wireless capacity problem that the traditional RF based technologies are confronting. Despite its advantages, FSO communication is prone to mobility. The highly directional FSO transceivers require establishment and maintenance of line-of-sight (LOS) between them. Facilitating continuous alignment requirements has been a major concentration of mobile FSO research to date. We consider two autonomous mobile nodes, each with one FSO transceiver mounted on a movable head capable of rotating 360 degrees. We propose a novel scheme that deals with the problem of automatic detection, establishment and maintenance of LOS alignment between the two nodes with mechanical steering of the FSO transceivers. The proposed method shows that using such mechanically steerable transceivers and a simple autoalignment mechanism, it is possible to maintain optical wireless links in a mobile setting with nominal disruption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/WCNC.2014.6953020
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile communication,optical links,optical transceivers,FSO transceiver,autoalignment mechanism,automatic detection,autonomous mobile node,free space optical communication link,line-of-sight alignment,mechanically steerable transceiver,Autonomous Mobiles,Free Space Optical Communication,Line of Sight
Transceiver,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Free-space optical communication,Optical wireless
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1525-3511
6
0.74
References 
Authors
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahmudur Khan183.17
Murat Yuksel244561.52