@inproceedings{758ab33181414a148ad5163af9b23c73,
title = "Delay Analysis of Multi-Hop Satellite-Terrestrial Networks with Hybrid RF/FSO Links",
abstract = "Industry and academics have shown a strong interest in satellite-terrestrial networks combined with new technologies such as free-space optics (FSO). We propose a downlink satellite-terrestrial network solution combining FSO with site diversity and multi-hop hybrid radio-frequency (RF)/FSO links. Although the proposed network architecture is a cost-effective solution with wide coverage and immunity against different weather conditions, the multi-hop links can degrade its delay performance. Hence, we analyze the network dropping probability and latency to address the hop-count problem for various applications. We validated the derived network performance by Monte-Carlo simulation and showed that this setting could support ultra low latency applications such as medical applications with latency between 3-10 milliseconds, audio/video 2-50 milliseconds, and augmented reality 7-20 milliseconds. Also, the proposed network guarantees 98 % data delivery with 20 nodes.",
keywords = "delay analysis, free-space optical (FSO), hybrid radio frequency (RF)/FSO, queuing system, Satellite-terrestrial networks, site diversity",
author = "Alqurashi, {Fahad S.} and Osama Amin and Basem Shihada",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 IEEE.; 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2023 ; Conference date: 28-05-2023 Through 01-06-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10278630",
language = "English (US)",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Communications",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "2584--2589",
editor = "Michele Zorzi and Meixia Tao and Walid Saad",
booktitle = "ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications",
address = "United States",
}