Optical Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Mixed Dual-Hop FSO and Beamforming-Based RF System in C-RAN - Pang, Weina; Wang, Ping; Han, Maojie; Li, Shuang; Yang, Pengfei; Li, Ganggang; Guo, Lixin (IEEE transactions on wireless communications, 2022)
Keywords: Adaptive optics; Beamforming; Bit error rate; Closed form solutions; Cloud radio access network; dual-hop mixed FSO and RF system; Exact solutions; Fading; Fading channels; Free-space optical communication; Hypergeometric functions; Mathematical analysis; Misalignment; Multivariate analysis; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber communication; optical intelligent reflecting surface; Optical scattering; Optical transmitters; performance analysis; polar codes; Radio frequency; Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical analysis; Weibull distribution