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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Lognormal-Rician FSO Channel Model Yang, Luanxia; Cheng, Julian; Holzman, Jonathan F.

Abstract

In this work, the on-going challenges are addressed for the application of the lognormal-Rician turbulence model to free-space optical communication systems. Maximum likelihood estimation is applied to characterize the lognormal-Rician turbulence model parameters, and the expectation-maximization algorithm is used to compute maximum likelihood estimates of the unknown parameters. The performance is investigated, by way of the mean square error, and it is found that the proposed technique can accurately characterize free-space optical communication channels over a wide range of turbulence conditions, with reduced demand on the quantity of data samples.

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Title
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Lognormal-Rician FSO Channel Model
Creator
Yang, Luanxia; Cheng, Julian; Holzman, Jonathan F.
Date Issued
2015
Description
In this work, the on-going challenges are addressed for the application of the lognormal-Rician turbulence model to free-space optical communication systems. Maximum likelihood estimation is applied to characterize the lognormal-Rician turbulence model parameters, and the expectation-maximization algorithm is used to compute maximum likelihood estimates of the unknown parameters. The performance is investigated, by way of the mean square error, and it is found that the proposed technique can accurately characterize free-space optical communication channels over a wide range of turbulence conditions, with reduced demand on the quantity of data samples.
Subject
Free-space optical communications; lognormal- Rician turbulence model; maximum likelihood estimation
Genre
Article; Postprint
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2016-10-05
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0319021
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59386
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Engineering, School of (Okanagan)
Citation
Yang, L., Cheng, J., & Holzman, J. F. (2015). Maximum likelihood estimation of the lognormal-rician FSO channel model. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 27(15), 1656-1659.
Publisher DOI
10.1109/LPT.2015.2433871
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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