Bit detect and forward relaying for FSO links using equal gain combining over gamma-gamma atmospheric turbulence channels with pointing errors

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 16394-16409

  García Zambrana, Antonio ^a   Castillo Vázquez, Carmen ^a   Castillo Vázquez, Beatriz ^a   Boluda Ruiz, Rubén ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; FADING CHANNELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE CHANNELS; BEAM WIDTHS; CHANNEL PARAMETER; CLOSED FORM; DECODE-AND-FORWARD; DETECTOR SIZE; DIVERSITY GAIN; DIVERSITY ORDER; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING; EQUIVALENT BEAMS; FADING MODELS; FORWARD RELAYING; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; GAMMA-GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; JITTER VARIANCE; OPTICAL BEAMS; POINTING ERRORS; RELAY LOCATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; TURBULENCE CONDITIONS;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84864115936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.016394     Document Type: Article

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