On the performance of hybrid RF and RF/FSO fixed gain dual-hop transmission systems

2013 Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference, SIECPC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ansari, Imran Shafique ^a   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a   Yilmaz, Ferkan ^b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ITU ARI 3 Teknokent   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Asymmetric dual hop relay system; free space optical (FSO) communications; optical wireless communications

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; RELAY SYSTEM; SELECTION COMBINING DIVERSITIES;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 84881466928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIECPC.2013.6550751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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