Outage performance of DF relay-assisted FSO communications using time diversity

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1149-1152

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decode and forward (DF) relaying; Free space optical (FSO) links; Gamma gamma fading; Outage probability; Time diversity

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DECODING; FADING CHANNELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DECODEANDFORWARD RELAYING; FREE SPACE OPTICAL LINK (FSO); GAMMA-GAMMA FADING; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; TIME DIVERSITY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84929308342     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2015.2410426     Document Type: Article

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