Performance analysis of free-space optical communication systems over atmospheric turbulence channels

IET Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1402-1409

  Nistazakis, H E ^a   Tsiftsis, T A ^b   Tombras, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; APERTURE DIAMETER; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE CHANNELS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; ERGODIC; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FADING MODELS; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; LOG-NORMAL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; STATISTICAL MODELS; WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; PHOTONICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 67651215951     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2008.0212     Document Type: Article

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