BER Analysis of Cooperative Systems in Free-Space Optical Networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5639-5647

  Karimi, Mehdi ^a   Nasiri Kenari, Masoumeh ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

BER analysis; cooperative systems; free space optics; shot noise; spatial diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751651315     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2032789     Document Type: Article

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