Error performance of coded FSO links in turbulent atmosphere modeled by gamma-gamma distributions

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2209-2213

  Gappmair, Wilfried ^a   Flohberger, Markus ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Binary pulse position modulation; Error performance; Free space optical communications; Gamma gamma distribution; On off keying

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL STATE; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; CODING THEOREMS; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; ERROR PERFORMANCE; ERROR PROBABILITIES; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; GAMMA-GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; LOWER BOUNDS; ON-OFF KEYING; PAIR-WISE ERROR PROBABILITY; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE; UPPER BOUND; VITERBI DECODING;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77955718515     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.080076     Document Type: Article

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