Distribution function for continental and maritime fog environments for optical wireless communication

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 260-264

  Awan, M Saleem ^a   Leitgeb, E ^a   Muhammad, S Sheikh ^b   Marzuki, ^a   Nadeem, F ^a   Khan, M Saeed ^a   Capsoni, C ^c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drop size distribution (DSD); Fog attenuation; Free space optical communications; Mie scattering; Size parameter; Visibility

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERICS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FIBER OPTICS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE OPTICS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION (DSD); FOG ATTENUATION; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; MIE SCATTERING; SIZE PARAMETER; VISIBILITY;

FOG;

EID: 53149124459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSNDSP.2008.4610728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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