Link availability model for optical communication through clouds

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4821, Issue , 2002, Pages 320-331

  Hahn, Daniel V ^a   Edwards, Clinton L ^b   Duncan, Donald D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Clouds; Mie theory; Optical communication; Optical thickness; Probability; Scatter

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL LINKS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

GEOGRAPHIC PROBABILITY MAPS; MIE THEORY; OPTICAL PROPAGATION MODEL; OPTICAL THICKNESS; RADIATION TRANSPORT MODEL;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036993199     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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