Abstract

Free space optics communication (FSO) offers several advantages over its counterpart radio frequency (RF) systems in terms of bandwidth, data rates, and cost efficiency. However, FSO, being a line-of-sight (LoS) communication system, is hindered by various environmental factors. In this paper, we propose a multihop decode-and-forward (DF) relaying-based intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted FSO system with an aim to deal with the impediments in FSO communication, and it is assumed that each IRS consists of multiple reflecting elements. Specifically, we derive end-to-end expressions for cumulative distribution function (CDF) of output instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Furthermore, with the aid of the CDF statistics, we study the performance of the proposed system by obtaining the expressions for outage probability (OP) and average symbol error rate (ASER) in terms of multivariate Fox’s H-function. Moreover, we have quantified the system performance by numerical results. The numerical results show that the multihop IRS-assisted FSO system provides better performance when compared to a single-hop IRS-assisted FSO system and multihop FSO system without IRS. Finally, the derived expressions of OP and ASER are validated using Monte-Carlo simulations.

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