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Journal Article
HARQ Performance Limits for Free-Space Optical Communication Systems
2025
Overview
Free-space optical (FSO) communications represent an attractive technology for future high-capacity wireless and satellite networks, offering multi-Gbps data rates, unlicensed spectrum, and built-in physical-layer security. However, their performance is severely affected by atmospheric turbulence, misalignment errors, and noise, which limit reliability and throughput. Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocols provide a powerful mechanism to mitigate such impairments by combining forward error correction with retransmissions. In this paper, we investigate the fundamental performance limits of HARQ applied to FSO systems employing On–Off Keying (OOK) modulation. Using information-theoretic tools, we characterize the achievable rate and the finite-blocklength performance by resorting to channel dispersion, which plays a crucial role in quantifying rate–reliability tradeoffs. We further examine the interaction between HARQ retransmissions, turbulence-induced fading, and feedback delay, providing insights into the design of low-latency, high-reliability optical links. This analysis highlights how HARQ improves the robustness of OOK-based FSO systems and provides guidelines for parameter selection in next-generation space and terrestrial optical networks.
Publisher
MDPI AG,Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
