Channel models for optical wireless communication systems

Author

Joshi, H. ; Green, R.J. ; Leeson, M.S.

Author_Institution

Commun. & Signal Process. Group, Univ. of Warwick, Coventry, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

We present an up to date review of various channel models used for optical wireless communication systems so far. Various channel models for both indoor and outdoor optical wireless communication systems are examined. For indoor environment different configurations of transmitter and receiver positions are discussed. For outdoor environment, the factors affecting the link performance such as atmospheric turbulence are investigated in terms of channel modelling. Finally, both the indoor and outdoor channel models are respectively compared in terms of computation speed, complexity and accuracy of performance.

Keywords

optical communication; radio-over-fibre; wireless channels; atmospheric turbulence; channel models; optical wireless communication systems; Atmospheric modeling; Mie scattering; Optical losses; Optical receivers; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Particle scattering; Rayleigh scattering; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5184992

Filename

5184992