Characterization of fog and snow attenuations for free-space optical propagation

Journal of Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 533-545

  Awan, Muhammad Saleem ^a   Horwath, Laszlo Csurgai ^b   Muhammad, Sajid Sheikh ^c   Leitgeb, Erich ^a   Nadeem, Farukh ^a   Khan, Muhammad Saeed ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

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

Author keywords

Cumulative distribution function (CDF) exceedance probability; Free Space Optics; Particle density; Specific attenuation; Visibility range

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TECHNOLOGY; ATTENUATION STATISTICS; BER PERFORMANCE; CASE BASED; CLOUD COVERAGE; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDF) EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; DENSITY VALUE; DRY SNOW; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FREE SPACE; FREE SPACE OPTICS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; LARGE DATA VOLUMES; LINK AVAILABILITY; LINK DISTANCE; OPTICAL ATTENUATION; OPTICAL ENERGY; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PARTICLE DENSITY; PARTICLE SENSORS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SPECIFIC ATTENUATION; STANDARD CURVES; TIME VARIATIONS; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CURVE FITTING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SENSORS; SNOW; SPACE OPTICS; VISIBILITY;

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EID: 77953637145     PISSN: 17962021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jcm.4.8.533-545     Document Type: Article

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