Optical wireless links with spatial diversity over strong atmospheric turbulence channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 951-957

  Tsiftsis, Theodoros A ^a   Sandalidis, Harilaos G ^b   Karagiannidis, George K ^a   Uysal, Murat ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Bit error rate (BER); Free space optical communication; K distribution; Optical wireless; Spatial diversity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BIT ERROR RATE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONICS; TRANSMITTERS;

BIT-ERROR RATE (BER); FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; K DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL WIRELESS; SPATIAL DIVERSITY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 61349151188     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.071318     Document Type: Article

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