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2015 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)

DOI: 10.1109/ipcon.2015.7323709

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, p. 1-1, 2015

DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2015.2410426

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Outage Performance of DF Relay-Assisted FSO Communications Using Time Diversity

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Abstract

Outage probability as a performance measure for a decode-and-forward (DF) relaying scheme based on repetition coding with the relay is presented in the context of free-space optical (FSO) communication systems with intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) over atmospheric turbulence and misalignment fading channels. Novel closed-form asymptotic expressions for the outage probability are derived for a 3-way FSO communication setup when the irradiance of the transmitted optical beam is susceptible to moderate-to-strong turbulence conditions, following a gamma-gamma (GG) distribution, and pointing error effects, following a misalignment fading model where the effect of beam width, detector size and jitter variance is considered. Fully exploiting the potential time-diversity available in the relay turbulent channel, a greater robustness to the relay location and pointing errors is achieved, maintaining a high diversity gain regardless of the source-destination link distance and remarkably superior to that of the two-transmitter case as well as the conventional decode-and-forward scheme. Simulation results are further demonstrated to confirm the accuracy and usefulness of the derived results .