On the SIR of a cellular infrared optical wireless system for an aircraft

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1623-1638

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

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^d AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

INFRARED WIRELESS; LOS; MONTE CARLO; NLOS; PATH LOSS; SHADOWING; SIR;

AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION; AIRCRAFT MODELS; CELLS; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; STATISTICS;

CABINS (AIRCRAFT);

EID: 77955357525     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.091212     Document Type: Article

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