Trigui, ImèneCherif, NesrineSofiène, Affes2021-09-142021-09-142019-03-10https://repo.sltc.ac.lk/handle/1/97This letter presents a unified analytical frameworkfor the computation of the ergodic capacity and the outageprobability of relay-assisted mixed FSO/RF transmission.Inaddition to accounting for different FSO detection techniques, themathematical model offers a twofold unification of mixed FSO/RFsystems by considering mixed Málaga-M/κ-μshadowed fading,which includes as special cases nearly all linear turbulence/fadingmodels adopted in the open literature.en-USAmplify-and-forwardergodic capacity,free-space opticsκ-μshadowed fading,outage probability,pointing errors.Article