BER performance of MIMO free-space optical links

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3378-3382

  Navidpour, S Mohammad ^a   Uysal, Murat ^a   Li, Jing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Bit error rate; Free space optical communication; Lognormal channel; MIMO

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RAYLEIGH FADING;

FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION (FSO); LOGNORMAL CHANNELS; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO); RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNELS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 17144404908     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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