High-Speed Trains Access Connectivity Through RIS-Assisted FSO Communications

10/25/2021
by   Pouya Agheli, et al.
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Free-space optic (FSO) is a promising solution to provide broadband Internet access for high-speed trains (HSTs). Besides, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are considered as hardware technology to improve performance of optical wireless communication systems. In this paper, we propose a RIS-assisted FSO system to provide access connectivity for HTSs, as an upgrade for the existing direct and relay-assisted FSO access setups. Our motivation is mainly based on well-proven results indicating that a RIS-assisted optical wireless system, with a large enough number of RIS elements, outperforms a relay-assisted one thanks to its programmable structure. We firstly compute the statistical expressions of the considered RIS-assisted FSO channels under weak and moderate-to-strong fading conditions. Then, the network's average signal-to-noise ratio and outage probability are formulated based on the assumed fading conditions, and for two fixed- and dynamic-oriented RIS coverage scenarios. Our results reveal that the proposed access network offers up to around 44 station (FSO-BS) compared to those of the relay-assisted one. The increase of coverage area, on average, reduces 67 given distance, which results in fewer handover processes compared to the alternative setups. Finally, the results are verified through Monte-Carlo simulations.

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