Aminikashani, MohammadrezaSafari, M.Uysal, Murat2014-11-252014-11-252012978-1-4673-0436-8http://hdl.handle.net/10679/672https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214521Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.Relay-assisted free-space optical (FSO) transmission exploits the fact that atmospheric turbulence fading variance is distance dependent and yields significant performance gains by taking advantage of the resulting shorter hops. In this paper, we first investigate how to determine optimal relay locations in serial and parallel FSO relaying as to minimize the outage probability and then quantify performance improvements obtained through optimal relay placement.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessConference paper99599900032458070101710.1109/WCNC.2012.6214521Atmospheric turbulenceCooperative communicationFadingLight transmissionOptical communication2-s2.0-84864370411