Mahdi, Abdullah JameelMazher, JalilUçan, Osman Nuri2022-04-062022-04-062021Mahdi, A. J., Mazher, W. J., & Ucan, O. N. (2021, September). Hovering Drones-Based FSO Technology In Weak Atmospheric Turbulence With Pointing Error. In 2021 International Conference on Computing and Communications Applications and Technologies (I3CAT) (pp. 52-56). IEEE.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12939/2313The rapid development of drones that are a type of Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAV) in different fields encourages researchers and institutes concern with wireless communication to use this technology. As wireless optical communication (OWC) has been applied and has many advantages over Radio Frequency (RF), this enables using the optical beam in UAV-based Free-space optical (FSO) technology as an alternative to RF technology. In this paper, the proposed system configuration has two subsystems: Single Input-Single Output (SISO) and Multiple Input-Single Output (MISO). The system was simulated using MATLAB software 2020. The optical signal was modulated using Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) and transmitted in a weak turbulence regime. The Average Bit error Rate (ABER) was measured depending on the pointing error HP factor. The idea was to find the specific values of the pointing error angle θr and link distance Z that are the related parameters of HP. The results have clarified that for each pointing error angle θr value, there was a specific path length Z, which can keep the system at high performance, for example, θr= rad, the applicable link distance Z=1000 m, and the ABER≈ .eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessDroneFree Space OpticalPointing Error FactorPointing Error AngleLink DistanceSingle Input-Single OutputMultiple Input-Single OutputPulse Position ModulationAverage Bit Error RateArticle52562-s2.0-85123751162N/A