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Error Analysis of Mixed THz-RF Wireless Systems

2019; IEEE Communications Society; Volume: 24; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/lcomm.2019.2959337

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Alexandros–Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos, Angeliki Alexiou,

Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks

In this letter, we introduce a novel mixed terahertz (THz)-radio frequency (RF) wireless system architecture, which can be used for backhaul/fronthaul applications, and we deliver the theoretical framework for its performance assessment. In more detail, after identifying the main design parameters and characteristics, we derive novel closed-form expressions for the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio cumulative density function, the outage probability and the symbol error rate, assuming that the system experiences the joint effect of fading and stochastic antenna misalignment. The derived analytical framework is verified through simulations and quantifies the system's effectiveness and reliability. Finally, our results contribute to the extraction of useful design guidelines.