Practical switching-based hybrid FSO/RF transmission and its performance analysis

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Usman, Muneer ^a   Yang, Hong Chuan ^a   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

free space optical communication; Hydrid FSO RF; performance analysis; radio frequency

Indexed keywords

FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; HYDRID FSO/RF; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

EID: 84907191039     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2352629     Document Type: Article

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