Optical communications comparison of hard-decision and soft-decision channel coded M-ary PPM performance over free space optical links

European Transactions on Telecommunications

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 746-757

  Muhammad, S Sheikh ^a   Javornik, Tomaž ^b   Jelovčan, Igor ^b   Ghassemlooy, Zabih ^c   Leitgeb, Erich ^d  

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

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; ERROR CONTROL; FREE SPACE OPTICS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL LINK; HARD DECISIONS; M-ARY PPM; MODULATION SCHEMES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; REED SOLOMON; SIMULATION RESULT; SOFT DECISION;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; PULSE POSITION MODULATION;

PULSE MODULATION;

EID: 72249122205     PISSN: 1124318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.1343     Document Type: Article

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