Free-Space Optical Communications: Capacity Bounds, Approximations, and a New Sphere-Packing Perspective

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1176-1191

  Chaaban, Anas ^a   Morvan, Jean Marie ^a,b   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

capacity bounds; Intensity modulation; sphere packing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; PACKING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPHERES;

CAPACITY BOUND; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; INTENSITY CONSTRAINTS; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; MISALIGNMENT CONDITIONS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; SPHERE PACKING BOUND; SPHERE PACKINGS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84963631907     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2524569     Document Type: Article

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