Performance Analysis of Free-Space Optical Links over Málaga (M) Turbulence Channels with Pointing Errors

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 91-102

  Ansari, Imran Shafique ^a   Yilmaz, Ferkan ^b   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a  

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

^b Tachyonic Solutions   (Turkey)

Author keywords

binary modulation schemes; bit error rate (BER); ergodic capacity; Free space optical (FSO) communications; Gamma Gamma turbulence channels; Lognormal turbulence channels; Malaga (M) turbulence channels; Meijer's G function; optical wireless communications; outage probability (OP); pointing errors; scintillation index (SI); symbol error rate (SER)

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BINS; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERRORS; FADING CHANNELS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SCINTILLATION; TURBULENCE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BINARY MODULATION SCHEMES; ERGODIC CAPACITY; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; GAMMA-GAMMA TURBULENCE CHANNELS; LOG-NORMAL; MALAGA (M) TURBULENCE CHANNELS; MEIJER'S G FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; POINTING ERRORS; SCINTILLATION INDEX; SYMBOL ERROR RATE (SER);

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84962204043     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2467386     Document Type: Article

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