Serial free-space optical relaying communications over gamma-gamma atmospheric turbulence channels

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 576-586

  Datsikas, Christos K ^a   Peppas, Kostas P ^b   Sagias, Nikos C ^c   Tombras, George S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Average bit error probability; Free space optics; Gamma gamma fading; Multihop relaying; Outage probability

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE BIT ERROR PROBABILITY; FREE SPACE OPTICS; GAMMA FADING; MULTIHOP RELAYING; OUTAGE PROBABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BIT ERROR RATE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OUTAGES; RANDOM VARIABLES; RATIONAL FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 78649746668     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.2.000576     Document Type: Article

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