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

Xuan Tang, Zhengyuan Xu, Zabih Ghassemlooy

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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 NOC/OC&I
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherIEEE
Pages199-202
ISBN (Print)978-1467358217
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event18th European Conference on Network & Optical Communications, 8th Conference on Optical Cabling & Infrastrutcture - Graz, Austria
Duration: 1 Jan 2013 → …

Conference

Conference18th European Conference on Network & Optical Communications, 8th Conference on Optical Cabling & Infrastrutcture
Period1/01/13 → …

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