Performance of an amplify-and-forward dual-hop asymmetric RF-FSO communication system

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 124-135

  Anees, Sanya ^a   Bhatnagar, Manav ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward relaying; Bit error rate; Channel capacity; Free space optical (FSO) communication; Gamma Gamma turbulence; Nakagami m fading; Outage probability; Rayleigh fading

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERROR STATISTICS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OUTAGES; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TURBULENCE;

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD RELAYING; AVERAGE CHANNEL CAPACITIES; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; NAKAGAMI-M FADING; OUTAGE PROBABILITY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 84923222033     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.7.000124     Document Type: Article

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