Abstract
A new and generalized statistical model, called Malaga or simply M distribution, has been derived recently to characterize the irradiance fluctuations of an unbounded optical wavefront propagating through a turbulent medium under all irradiance fluctuation conditions. The aforementioned model extends and unifies in a simple analytical closed-form expression most of the proposed statistical models for free-space optical (FSO) communications widely employed until now in the scientific literature. Based on that M model, we have studied some important features associated to its fade statistics and expressed in terms of the expected number of fades per second. The derived expressions become relevant for many aspects in a FSO system, especially those ones related to determine the optimum threshold in a receiver based on a direct detection scheme employing a fixed detection threshold.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 112 |
| Journal | EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking |
| Volume | 2017 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISSN | 1687-1472 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
© The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.Keywords
- Signal Processing
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer networks
- Closed-form expression
- Detection threshold
- Fluctuation conditions
- Free Space Optical communication
- Important features
- Optimum threshold
- Scientific literature
- Statistical modeling
- Wireless telecommunication systems