Abstract
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted free space optical (FSO) communication can overcome line-of-sight and bring spatial diversity, which is considered to be a good complement to direct FSO links. This paper is interested in understanding the role of IRS-assisted FSO links when coexisting with direct FSO links. Due to the diverse nature of existing FSO channel models and the reliability requirements of IRS-assisted FSO systems, this paper aims to investigate the transmission problems of link selection and power configuration under the quality of service guarantee for link outage, which can be applicable to different channel models. Despite the inherent complexity of the problems, transmission schemes, i.e., sum rate transmission (SRT) and rate fairness transmission (RFT) are developed, which can achieve the respective optimal performance. Also, some insights for transmission schemes are provided. The results verify the efficacy of the proposed transmission schemes. The performance of the system may be improved by 40% and 41% for SRT and RFT, respectively.
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