Path loss simulation of an infrared optical wireless system for aircraft

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dimitrov, Svilen ^a,b   Mesleh, Raed ^a   Haas, Harald ^a,c   Cappitelli, Mario ^b   Olbert, Michael ^b   Bassow, Erhard ^d  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infrared wireless; LOS; Monte carlo ray tracing; NLOS; Optical communications; Path loss; Shadowing

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CABINS; FIELD OF VIEWS; INFRARED WIRELESS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO RAY-TRACING; NLOS CONDITIONS; NONLINE OF SIGHT; OPTICAL WIRELESS; OPTICAL WIRELESS SYSTEMS; PATH LOSS; PATH LOSS EXPONENT; STANDARD DEVIATION;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONICS; STATISTICS;

CABINS (AIRCRAFT);

EID: 77951586469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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