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    Performance analysis of RoFSO links with spatial diversity over combined channel model for 5G in smart city applications
    (Elsevier B.V., 2020) Kumar, A.; Krishnan, P.
    The smart city concept improves the lives of citizens and optimizes the efficiency of city operations, services through the integration of information and communication technology with the help of the internet of things (IoT) and 5G techniques. The bandwidth demand for 5G, smart city, and IoT applications are fulfilled with wireless optical communications. Particularly, radio over free space optical (RoFSO) communication establishes a very attractive choice for interconnecting central base stations with remote antenna units. In this paper, we consider the transmission of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) radio signals with quadrature amplitude (QAM) modulation format through a free space optical link using spatial diversity mitigation technique. The atmosphere is modeled as the combined channel model which takes into account atmospheric attenuation, turbulence, and pointing errors. The atmospheric turbulence and pointing errors are modeled by Malaga, Beckmann, and Rayleigh distributions. The novel closed form BER expressions are derived for the proposed QAM OFDM RoFSO link with spatial diversity. The results are analyzed and plotted for different weather conditions (clear, haze, light fog), turbulence regimes (weak, moderate, strong), misalignment (weak, enhanced), the order of QAM and number of transceivers. The proposed RoFSO system is highly useful for 5G in smart city applications. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
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    Performance analysis of FSO based inter-UAV communication systems
    (Springer, 2021) Nallagonda, V.R.; Krishnan, P.
    Recently unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) gained considerable attention for recent potential applications like 6G, internet of things, disaster management applications etc. Especially inter UAV communications have an increased interest in low, medium, and high altitude platforms. Free space optical (FSO) communication plays a vital role in UAV communication to offer a high data rate, wider bandwidth, and secure transmission. In this paper, first time we introduced heterodyne detection (HD) in FSO based inter UAV communication. The outage and average bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed system is analyzed and the results are compared with the existing Intensity modulation direct detection (IM/DD). We studied the impact of turbulence and pointing errors on BER and outage performance of the proposed system. The results are plotted for different system parameters such as Rytov Variance, field-Of-view, Transmitter UAV orientation ; receive UAV orientation, link range, and Beam width. The analytical results are validated with the monte-carlo simulations. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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    Bit error rate analysis of polarization shift keying based free space optical link over different weather conditions for inter unmanned aerial vehicles communications
    (Springer, 2021) Nallagonda, V.; Krishnan, P.
    The increasing availability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an exciting part of future emerging technology with advanced scientific and industrial interests. Free space optical (FSO) communications’ ability to offer very high data rates and the mobility of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying platforms make the delivery of Fifth-Generation (5G) wireless networking services appealing to FSO-UAV-based solutions. UAVs play a greater role in end-to-end delivery in next- generation wireless networking systems, serving as a base station, capacity enhancement, high data access, and other disaster management systems. To establish a link between unmanned aerial vehicles and ground stations, FSO can be applied. But, the different weather conditions liken rain, fog effects on the performance of the FSO link, contributing to the loss of the signal. In this paper, we proposed polarization shift keying (POLSK) modulated FSO link based UAV–UAV communication system for 6G beyond applications. We examine the effect of different weather conditions such as rain, fog on the bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed system. Novel closed-form expressions for UAV–UAV based FSO propagation channel are derived, and BER performance is investigated under different weather conditions. Fog and rain are the main limiting factors mitigated in this paper by suitable mitigation techniques by increasing receiver field of view. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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    All-Optical UAV-Based Triple-Hop FSO-FSO-VLC Cooperative System for High-Speed Broadband Internet Access in High-Speed Trains
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023) Aarthi, A.; Bhargava Kumar, L.B.; Krishnan, P.; Natarajan, R.; Jayakody, D.N.K.
    In this paper, we proposed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based all optical triple hop mixed free space optical-free space optical-visible light communication (FSO-FSO-VLC) system for broadband internet access in high-speed train applications. The system consists of triple hops from gateway to the UAV, UAV to train and train to the end user. Two decode and forward relays are mounted on the UAV and train respectively to transmit the data between the gateway to the end-users. The first hop between gateway to UAV consist of FSO link which follows M-distribution. The second hop between the UAV to train consists of FSO link and is modelled using Gamma-Gamma distribution which takes into account both atmospheric turbulence and pointing errors due to position/orientation deviation. The third hop between the train and end user is connected using VLC link and it is mathematically modelled using Lambertian emission distribution. The relays map the incoming signal on the FSO links and send it down to the user inside the train via the VLC downlink. We derived the closed form expressions for average bit error rate and outage probability of the proposed system. This paper investigates the effects of atmospheric turbulence, field of view, beam divergence angle, displacement deviation variance, optical concentrator gain, number of access point, and modulation schemes on system performance. First time, we proposed all-optical system which offers high data rate and low transmission delay. © 2013 IEEE.
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    CAR-BRAINet: Sub-6 GHz aided spatial adaptive beam prediction with multi head attention for heterogeneous vehicular networks
    (Institute of Physics, 2025) Menon, A.G.; Krishnan, P.; Lal, S.
    Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks (HetVNets) play a crucial role by integrating different communication technologies, such as sub-6 GHz, mm-wave, and DSRC, to meet the diverse connectivity requirements of 5G/B5G vehicular networks. HetVNet helps address humongous user demands, but maintaining a steady connection in highly mobile, real-world conditions remains challenging. Though ample studies have been conducted on beam prediction models, a dedicated solution for HetVNets has been sparsely explored. Hence, developing a reliable beam prediction model, specifically for HetVNets, is necessary. This paper introduces a lightweight deep learning-based model termed ‘CAR-BRAINet’, which consists of convolutional neural networks with a powerful multi-head attention (MHA) mechanism. Existing literature on beam prediction is primarily studied under a limited, idealised vehicular scenario, often overlooking the real-time complexities and intricacies of vehicular networks. Therefore, this study aims to mimic the complexities of a real-time driving scenario by incorporating key factors, such as prominent MAC protocols (3GPP-C-V2X and IEEE 802.11BD), the effect of Doppler shifts under high velocity and varying distance, and SNR levels, into three high-quality dynamic data sets for urban, rural, and highway vehicular networks. CAR-BRAINet achieves a steady improvement of 11.6467% in spectral efficiency, with a 93.1638% lighter architecture compared to existing methods, resulting in a 94.7103% reduction in prediction time. Therefore, demonstrating a precise beam prediction across all vehicular scenarios, with minimal beam overhead. Thus, this study justifies the effectiveness of CAR-BRAINet in complex HetVNets, offering promising performance without relying on mobile users’ location, angle, and antenna dimensions, thereby reducing redundant sensor latency. © 2025 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights, including for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies, are reserved.