Analysis of diffuse optical wireless channels employing spot-diffusing techniques, diversity receivers, and combining schemes

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1622-1631

  Al Ghamdi, Abdullah G ^a   Elmirghani, Jaafar M H ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Combining methods; Diversity reception; Optical wireless; Spot diffusing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AMBIENT NOISE; COMBINING METHODS; OPTICAL WIRELESS; SPOT DIFFUSING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 8444224676     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2004.836509     Document Type: Article

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