• DocumentCode
    1527365
  • Title

    Average BER Analysis of Differential Modulation in DF Cooperative Communication System over Gamma-Gamma Fading FSO Links

  • Author

    Bhatnagar, Manav R.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, IN-110016 New Delhi, India
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    8/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1228
  • Lastpage
    1231
  • Abstract
    In this letter, we study differential modulation for decode-and-forward (DF) based free space optical (FSO) cooperative communication system over Gamma-Gamma fading channels. We derive exact bit error rate (BER) of the differential DF FSO system in terms of power series. The diversity order and coding gain of the differentially modulated DF FSO system are analytically obtained. It is demonstrated by analysis and simulation that the differential DF FSO system is able to achieve significant performance gain over a non-cooperative direct transmission based differential FSO system.
  • Keywords
    Bit error rate; Encoding; Modulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical transmitters; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Decode-and-forward protocol; Gamma-Gamma fading; differential modulation; free space optical links;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2012.052112.120670
  • Filename
    6208782