Outage probability of multihop free space optical communications over nakagami fading channels

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Abstract

In this paper, the end-to-end outage probability of a multihop free space optical (FSO) communication system over N independent Nakagami fading relay channels are analyzed. We assume that the channel state information-based relays have the knowledge of the channel states in the preceding hops. The Laplace transform of the inverse end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived in a closed form. Based on this expression, the outage probability involving N statistically independent, but not necessarily identically distributed (i.n.i.d) Nakagami relay channels is evaluated numerically via the inverse Laplace transform. The results indicate that the outage probability improves as N decreases and/or the arbitrary fading parameter m increases. This is because the probability that any of the cascaded fading channels is in deep fade decreases significantly. Therefore, the smaller N and/or larger m, the better the multihop relay channel.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2013 18th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications, NOC 2013 and 2013 8th Conference on Optical Cabling and Infrastructure, OC and I 2013
Pages199-202
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 18th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications, NOC 2013 and 2013 8th Conference on Optical Cabling and Infrastructure, OC and I 2013 - Graz, Austria
Duration: 10 Jul 201312 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2013 18th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications, NOC 2013 and 2013 8th Conference on Optical Cabling and Infrastructure, OC and I 2013

Conference

Conference2013 18th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications, NOC 2013 and 2013 8th Conference on Optical Cabling and Infrastructure, OC and I 2013
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityGraz
Period10/07/1312/07/13

Keywords

  • FSO Nakagami fading channel
  • multihop

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