Diversity gain and outage probability for MIMO free-space optical links with misalignment

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 479-487

  Farid, Ahmed A ^a   Hranilovic, Steve ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Diversity gain; Free space optical communications; Misalignment fading; Multipleinput multiple output MIMO; Outage probability; SNR exponent

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY GAIN; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; MISALIGNMENT FADING; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SNR EXPONENT;

ALIGNMENT; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING CHANNELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY; TRANSMITTERS;

MIMO SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857297890     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2011.121611.110181     Document Type: Article

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