Line-of-sight stability in unmanned aerial vehicle relays for hybrid free-space optical and visible light communication links under atmospheric effects

• Maha Sliti,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation University of Carthage, Higher School of Communication of Tunis (SUP’COM), LR11TIC04, Communication Networks and Security Research Lab. & LR11TIC02, Green and Smart Communication Systems Research Lab, Carthage, Tunisia

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• Salman Ghafoor ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: salman.ghafoor@seecs.edu.pk (SG); M.Ijaz@mmu.ac.uk (MI)

  Affiliation School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Sarra Ayouni,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Manel Mrabet,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Sciences, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

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• Lassaad Ben Ammar,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Sciences, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

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• Muhammad Ijaz

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: salman.ghafoor@seecs.edu.pk (SG); M.Ijaz@mmu.ac.uk (MI)

  Affiliation Department of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0050-9435

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