Hybrid free-space optical (FSO)/radio-frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising solution for high-data-rate wireless backhaul. We present and analyze a switching-based transmission scheme for the hybrid FSO/RF system. Specifically, either the FSO or RF link will be active at a certain time instance, with the FSO link enjoying a higher priority. We considered both a single-threshold case and a dual-threshold case for FSO link operation. Analytical expressions have been obtained for the outage probability, average bit error rate, and ergodic capacity for the resulting system. Numerical examples are presented to compare the performance of the hybrid scheme with the FSO-only scenario.

Hybrid free-space optical (FSO) / radio-frequency (RF) systems have emerged as a promising solution for high-datarate wireless transmission. We present and analyze a transmission scheme for the hybrid FSO/RF communication system based on adaptive combining. Specifically, only FSO link is active as long as the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the FSO receiver is above a certain threshold level. When it falls below this threshold level, the RF link is activated along with the FSO link and the signals from the two links are combined at the receiver using a dual-branch maximal ratio combiner. Novel analytical expression for the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the received SNR for the proposed hybrid system is obtained. This CDF expression is used to study the system outage performance. Numerical examples are presented to compare the outage performance of the proposed hybrid FSO/RF system with that of the FSO-only and RF-only systems.

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This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in cooperative relay networks, where a relay harvests energy from the radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted by a source and then uses the harvested energy to assist the information transmission from the source to its destination. Both source and relay transmissions use rateless code, which allows the destination to employ any of the two information receiving strategies, i.e., the mutual information accumulation (IA) and the energy accumulation (EA). The SWIPT-enabled relay employs three different SWIPT receiver architectures, the ideal receiver and two practical receivers (i.e., the power splitting (PS) and the time switch (TS) receivers). Accordingly, three relaying protocols, namely, ideal protocol, PS protocol and TS protocol, are presented. In order to explore the system performance limits with these three protocols, optimization problems are formulated to maximize their achievable information rates.For the ideal protocol, explicit expressions of the optimal solutions are derived. For the PS protocol, a linear-search algorithm is designed to solve the non-convex problems. For the TS protocol, two solving methods are presented. Numerical experiments are carried out to validate our analysis and algorithms, which also show that, with the same SWIPT receiver, the IA-based system outperforms the EA-based system, while with the same information receiving strategy, PS protocol outperforms DRAFT 2 TS protocol. Moreover, compared with conventional non-SWIPT and non-rateless-coded systems, the proposed protocols exhibit considerable performance gains, especially in relatively low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. Besides, the effects of the source-destination direct link and the relay position on system performance are also discussed, which provides insights on SWIPT-enabled relay systems. Index TermsEnergy harvesting, wireless information and power transfer, cooperative relaying, rateless codes. I. INTRODUCTIONRecently, integrating energy harvesting (EH) technologies into communication networks has attracted much attention [1]-[6], as it provides an effective way to implement green communications and to extend the lifetime of energy-constrained systems, including wireless sensor networks (WSN) and wireless body area networks (WBAN), etc. In EH-enabled communication networks, EH nodes can harvest energy from surrounding environment to power their operations.Apart from the conventional energy sources, e.g., solar, wind and thermoelectric energy, etc, [1]- [3], energy can also be harvested from radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted from other nodes with fixed energy supply such as power gird or high capacity batteries [4]. In [5], it was pointed out that information and energy can be simultaneously received from the RF signals as both energy and information are carried in transmitted RF signals, referred to as simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) [5]- [6]. Compared with conventional EH methods, SWIPT i...

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