The optical communication systems that use the free space as propagation mean are gaining popularity during last years, due to their high-capacity communication with low installation and operation cost. The performance of this new technology depends strongly on characteristic of the channel and thus, on the atmospheric conditions. In this work, we study the influence of link’s parameters on the average bit-error-rate of a system using intensity modulation/direct detection with on-off-keying. We study the log normal and the gamma gamma distribution models which are modeling the weak-to-moderate and modetare-to-strong turbulence channels respectively. Moreover, we derive approximate closed-form mathematical expressions for the estimation of the average bit-error-rate for both distributions.
2nd Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (MIC-CPE 2009)
Congress
2009 Global Congress on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (GC-CPE 2009), 6-8 February 2009, Amman, Jordan
Pages
--1
Topics
Noise Modelng in Wireless Optical Communications Free-Space Optical Communications
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{934CPE2009,
title={Average BER estimation of optical wireless communication links using OOK over turbulence channels},
author={Hector E. Nistazakis, and George S. Tombras, and Andreas Tsigopoulos, and Evangelia Karagianni, and Michael Fafalios},
booktitle={2009 Global Congress on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (GC-CPE 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={--1},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
