Ergodic capacity of decode-and-forward (DF) relay-assisted free-space optical (FSO) communication systems when line of sight is available is analyzed over gamma-gamma fading channels with pointing errors. Novel closed-form approximate ergodic capacity expression is obtained in terms of the H-Fox function for a 3-way FSO communication system when the α-μ distribution to efficiently approximate the probability density function (PDF) of the sum of gamma-gamma with pointing errors variates is considered. Moreover, we present a novel asymptotic expression at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the ergodic capacity of DF relay-assisted FSO systems. The main contribution in this work lies in an in-depth analysis about the impact of pointing errors on the ergodic capacity for cooperative FSO systems. In order to maintain the same performance in terms of capacity, it is corroborated that the presence of pointing errors requires an increase in SNR, which is related to the fraction of the collected power at the receive aperture, i.e. A0. Simulation results are further demonstrated to confirm the accuracy and usefulness of the derived results.


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    Title :

    Evaluating Pointing Errors on Ergodic Capacity of DF Relay-Assisted FSO Communication Systems




    Publication date :

    2015-09-01


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    275673 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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