Ergodic capacity analysis of free-space optical links with nonzero boresight pointing errors

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4248-4264

  Ansari, Imran Shafique ^a   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a   Cheng, Julian ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ergodic capacity; free space optical (FSO) communications; moments; optical wireless communications; pointing errors; turbulent channels

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; ERRORS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ERGODIC CAPACITY; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; MOMENTS; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; POINTING ERRORS; TURBULENT CHANNELS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84939532112     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2418285     Document Type: Article

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