Probabilistic model for free-space optical links under continental fog conditions

Radioengineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 460-465

  Khan, Muhammad Saeed ^a   Awan, Muhammad Saleem ^a   Muhammad, Sajid Sheikh ^b   Faisal, Muhammad ^c   Marzuki, M ^a,d   Nadeem, Farukh ^a   Leitgeb, Erich ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d ANDALAS UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Channel modeling; Free space optics (FSO); Mie scattering; Optical attenuations; Probability density function (PDF); Visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956641576     PISSN: 12102512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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