Performance Analysis of FSO Communications with Diversity Methods: Add More Relays or More Apertures?

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1890-1902

  Abou Rjeily, Chadi ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

cooperation; diversity; fading; Free space optics; FSO; gamma gamma; MIMO; relay assisted; relaying

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MIMO SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEEBECK EFFECT; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

COOPERATION; DIVERSITY; FADING; FREE SPACE OPTICS; FSO; GAMMA-GAMMA; RELAY-ASSISTED; RELAYING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84940043369     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2015.2432526     Document Type: Article

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