Outage analysis of relay-assisted free-space optical communications

IET Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1423-1432

  Karimi, M ^a   Nasiri Kenari, M ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CO-OPERATION STRATEGY; COOPERATIVE PROTOCOLS; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; DECODE-AND-FORWARD; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT; NON-COOPERATIVE; OUTAGE ANALYSIS; OUTAGE PERFORMANCE; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION; SPATIAL DIVERSITY;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MIMO SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OUTAGES; TRANSMITTERS;

RADIO BROADCASTING;

EID: 77955729680     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2009.0335     Document Type: Article

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