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1958 MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS / Vol. 57, No. 8, August 2015 DOI 10.1002/mop
h5ha hp 3. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
where ha denotes the atmospheric turbulence and hp represents 3.1. Bit Error Rate
the attenuation due to pointing error. The received optical irradi- For a particular value of received irradiance h, the BER value for
pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
ance h can be expressed in a probability distribution function BPSK-SIM system is given by the expression as Pec 5Qð cðhÞÞ.
form as given below Where c(h) is the instantaneous receiver signal to noise ratio
2
and b represents the amount of fading of the signal. Also B5 Substituting the expressions for pdf in (2) and c(h) we get
0
X 1cb
ab and the fraction of power of the optical beam at the 0sffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1
pffiffiffiffiffiffiffi2 ffi ð
1
ðRhÞ2 Pt A g2 Ah21 X
b
center is represented by A0 5ðexp ðvÞÞ2 where v5a p=wz is the Pber 5 Q@ 2
2rn 2
ratio between beam width wz and radius of the detector “a.” 0
k51
The effective beam width is given by the expression w2zeq 5w2z a1k 11g2 !!
pffiffi
1 2 3;0 h
ak G1;3 dh (3)
perfcðvÞ wzeq
2vexp ð2v2 Þ where g5 2rs is the ratio between the effective beam
B BA0 g2 ; a; k
width and the jitter standard deviation rs.
Using the result for Q function QðxÞ50:5erfcðxÞ and express-
2.2. System Model pffiffiffi
ing erfc in the Meiger G form using result erfcð xÞ5 p1ffiffip G2;0
1;2
The system considered is BPSK-SIM communication system. A h i
1
SIM system is used to multiplex different users on to the same xj0;1=2 we will get
channel at the same time by modulating each user information
with different carrier signals following the BPSK method of 2 1 3
ð
1
2
modulation and then adding them together after converting them g2 A 4 ð RhÞ P t 5
Pber 5 pffiffiffi h21 G2;0
1;2
to an intermediate frequency. A DC bias is applied to the result- 4 p 2rn 2
0 0;1=2
ing signal to make it contain only non-negative values because a1k 2 !!
Xb
1 2
h 11g
the optical irradiance is always non-negative. This signal is then 3;0
ak G1;3 dh (4)
used to modulate the irradiance of the optical signal generator k51
B BA0 g2 ; a; k
and this final signal is transmitted over the channel. At the
receiver the optical signal is detected by a photo detector and Applying the result for integration from Eqs. (21) and (22),
then the resulting electrical signal is demodulated in each branch [21] on the above result we will get
according to the BPSK demodulation method.
0 0 11
12g2 22g2 12a 22a 12k 22k
X
b 2a1k ; ; ; ; ; ; 1
2
g A2 a22 B k 1 2 B 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 CC
Pber 5 pffiffiffi Bak 2 G2;6 B CC
7;4 @8A0 B SNR (5)
8p p k51 @ B 1 2 12g 2 AA
0; ; 2g ;
2 2
where Eð:Þ denotes the Expectation operator over the pdf of the
This is the final closed form result of the ABER of the intensity of the optical signal. Therefore, the average channel
BPSK-SIM system. capacity can be expressed as,
2
For BPSK the SNR can be written as SNR5c0 h . Because of (8)
the turbulence of the atmosphere, this value of channel capacity
fluctuates randomly, so we go for the average channel capacity or Using Meiger G functions for natural logarithmic func-
h i
ergodic channel capacity given by the expression Cerg 5EðCðhÞÞ, tion lnð11xÞ5G1;2 1;1
2;2 xj1;0 [Eq. (11), Ref. 21] we get
DOI 10.1002/mop MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS / Vol. 57, No. 8, August 2015 1959
ð
1
h iX
b Applying the result for integration from Eqs. (21) and (22),
g2 A
Cerg5 h21 G1;2 1;1
2;2 c0 h2j1;0 [21] on the above result we will get
2lnð2Þ k51
0
a1k 2 !!
1 2 3;0 h 11g
ak G1;3 dh (9)
B BA0 g2 ; a; k
0 0 11
12g2 22g2 12a 22a 12k 22k
X
b 2a1k 1; 1; ; ; ; ; ;
a22
g2 A2 B k 1 2 B 2 2 2 2 2 2 C C
Cerg 5 Bak 2 G1;8 B 2 2 CC
8;4 @16B A0 SNR (10)
2plnð2Þ k51 @ B 12g 2 AA
1; 2g2 ; ;0
2
4. NUMERICAL RESULTS
The graphs for the analytical expressions derived for the ABER
and ergodic channel capacity are plotted against the average
received SNR. The values for the parameters are taken as the
following. The normalized optical power is given as
0
X 5X 1 2b0 51. Different values for q are taken to represent
varying turbulence conditions. Parameters representing the
pointing error are taken as: aperture radius a is taken as 10 cm,
the jitter radius rs is considered as 30 cm.
There are two plots for the ABER which is drawn for differ-
ent and same values for the optical irradiance scintillation index, Figure 2 ABER against SNR for a same intensity of turbulence (r2I )
r2I respectively. In the first case, three different scenarios for
wz/a 510, 20, and 25 are considered as given in the Figure 1. we can see that the behavior of each curve is different depend-
In all cases parameters of M turbulence were fixed as a510 and ing on the value of q. When q51, the overall scattering power
b55. Also for each value of wz/a multiple plots for different q entirely coupled to LOS component and reducing its adverse
are drawn and three different behavior were obtained: q51 effect. When q is getting reduced, the scattering power is dis-
which corresponds to a Gamma-Gamma distribution; q50:75 tributed and more harmfully effect on the FSO communication
and q50:25. system as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 2 shows the ABER for wz/a 520 and a same intensity Figure 3 shows the plot of ergodic channel capacity against
of turbulence r2I . Here we have taken r2I 5 0.40. From the figure the average received SNR. From the plot it is clear that the
Figure 1 ABER against SNR for different values of q. [Color figure can
be viewed in the online issue, which is available at wileyonlinelibrary.
com] Figure 3 Ergodic channel capacity
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DOI 10.1002/mop MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS / Vol. 57, No. 8, August 2015 1961