• BER performance of FSO links over strong atmospheric turbulence channels with pointing errors 

      Sandalidis, H. G.; Tsiftsis, T. A.; Karagiannidis, G. K.; Uysal, M. (2008)
      In this letter, we investigate the error rate performance of free-space optical (FSO) links over strong turbulence fading channels together with misalignment (pointing error) effects. First, we present a novel closed-form ...
    • An efficient power constrained transmission scheme for hybrid OW/RF systems 

      Chatzidiamantis, N. D.; Georgiadis, L.; Sandalidis, H. G.; Karagiannidis, G. K. (2014)
      This paper investigates link layer transmission schemes for hybrid optical wireless (OW)/radio frequency (RF) systems with constraints on both per-link and total power consumption at the transmitter. Assuming timeslot ...
    • FSO links with spatial diversity over strong atmospheric turbulence channels 

      Tsiftsis, T. A.; Sandalidis, H. G.; Karagiannidis, G. K.; Uysal, M. (2008)
      Free-space optical (FSO) communication has received much attention in recent years as a cost-effective, license-free and wide-bandwidth access technique for high data rates applications. The performance of FSO communication, ...
    • Inverse Gaussian Modeling of Turbulence-Induced Fading in Free-Space Optical Systems 

      Chatzidiamantis, N. D.; Sandalidis, H. G.; Karagiannidis, G. K.; Matthaiou, M. (2011)
      We propose the inverse Gaussian distribution, as a less complex alternative to the classical log-normal model, to describe turbulence-induced fading in free-space optical (FSO) systems operating in weak turbulence conditions ...
    • New results on turbulence modeling for free-space optical systems 

      Chatzidiamantis, N. D.; Sandalidis, H. G.; Karagiannidis, G. K.; Kotsopoulos, S. A.; Matthaiou, M. (2010)
      In this paper, we propose a statistical channel model, named as Double-Weibull, to describe the irradiance fluctuations in moderate and strong turbulence for free-space optical (FSO) systems. The proposed stochastic model ...
    • On the inverse-Gaussian shadowing 

      Chatzidiamantis, N. D.; Sandalidis, H. G.; Karagiannidis, G. K.; Kotsopoulos, S. A. (2011)
      The Inverse Gaussian (IG) distribution has been recently proposed as a less complex alternative to the classical log-normal distribution to describe shadowing phenomena. This paper investigates the performance of digital ...
    • Optical Wireless Communications With Heterodyne Detection Over Turbulence Channels With Pointing Errors 

      Sandalidis, H. G.; Tsiftsis, T. A.; Karagiannidis, G. K. (2009)
      We study the error performance of an heterodyne differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) optical wireless (OW) communication system operating under various intensity fluctuations conditions. Specifically, it is assumed that ...
    • Optical Wireless Links with Spatial Diversity over Strong Atmospheric Turbulence Channels 

      Tsiftsis, T. A.; Sandalidis, H. G.; Karagiannidis, G. K.; Uysal, M. (2009)
      Optical wireless, also known as free-space optics, has received much attention in recent years as a cost-effective, license-free and wide-bandwidth access technique for high data rates applications. The performance of ...
    • A simple statistical model for turbulence-induced fading in free-space optical systems 

      Chatzidiamantis, N. D.; Sandalidis, H. G.; Karagiannidis, G. K.; Matthaiou, M. (2010)
      In this paper, we propose the Inverse Gaussian (IG) distribution, as a less complex alternative to Log-normal (LN), to describe turbulence-induced fading in free-space optical (FSO) systems operating in weak turbulence ...
    • Throughput-Optimal Link-Layer Design in Power Constrained Hybrid OW/RF Systems 

      Chatzidiamantis, N. D.; Georgiadis, L.; Sandalidis, H. G.; Karagiannidis, G. K. (2015)
      The aim of this paper is to develop link layer transmission schemes for hybrid optical wireless (OW)/radio frequency (RF) systems, with constraints on both per-link and total average power consumption at the transmitter. ...