Gallager Exponent Analysis of Coherent MIMO FSO Systems over Gamma-Gamma Turbulence Channels

This paper studies the Gallager’s exponent for coherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) free space optical (FSO) communication systems over gamma–gamma turbulence channels. We assume that the perfect channel state information (CSI) is known at the receiver, while the transmitter has no CSI and equal power is allocated to all of the transmit apertures. Through the use of Hadamard inequality, the upper bound of the random coding exponent, the ergodic capacity and the expurgated exponent are derived over gamma–gamma fading channels. In the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, simpler closed-form upper bound expressions are presented to obtain further insights into the effects of the system parameters. In particular, we found that the effects of small and large-scale fading are decoupled for the ergodic capacity upper bound in the high SNR regime. Finally, a detailed analysis of Gallager’s exponents for space-time block code (STBC) MIMO systems is discussed. Monte Carlo simulation results are provided to verify the tightness of the proposed bounds.