Achievable diversity orders of decode-and-forward cooperative protocols over gamma-gamma fading FSO links

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3919-3930

  Abou Rjeily, Chadi ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

cooperation; Cooperative diversity; Fading channels; Free space optics; FSO; Relay; Relay assisted

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE DIVERSITY; COOPERATION; FREE SPACE OPTICS; FSO; RELAY; RELAY-ASSISTED;

FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84884902809     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2013.071813.120439     Document Type: Article

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