Multiuser Diversity over Parallel and Hybrid FSO/RF Links and Its Performance Analysis

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Chen, Li ^a   Wang, Weidong ^a   Zhang, Chi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

free space optical communication; Hybrid free space optical (FSO) radio frequency (RF)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; FADING CHANNELS; SCHEDULING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AVERAGE BIT-ERROR RATES; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; HIGH DATA RATE WIRELESS; MULTI-USER DIVERSITY GAINS; POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84976527633     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2016.2563318     Document Type: Article

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