Performance Analysis of Multiple Optical Reflecting Surfaces Assisted FSO Communication

Abstract

The deployment of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in wireless communication systems have recently garnered much attention due to its potential to reduce blockages by providing an alternate propagation path and improving reliability. This paper reports the performance analysis of multiple optical reflecting surfaces (ORSs)-assisted free space optics (FSO) communication. Specifically, the performance is investigated by utilizing the selection of the best ORS from the multiple available ORSs. Firstly, we have derived the exact probability density function (PDF) of the end-to-end maximum instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) among multiple ORSs-aided FSO links. Further, using the above PDF statistics, the outage and average symbol error rate (SER) expressions of the considered multiple ORSs system are derived in closed-form. Additionally, the asymptotic expressions, which are mathematically more tractable, for both outage and average SER are presented with the diversity gain analysis. Finally, numerical results along with Monte-Carlo simulation results are provided to corroborate the derived analytical results. © 2023 IEEE.