Diversity gain analysis of underwater vertical MIMO VLC links in the presence of turbulence

Anil Yilmaz, Mohammed Elamassie, Murat Uysal

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Abstract

To satisfy the demands of high data rate underwater applications such as image and real-time video transmission, underwater visible light communication (UVLC) has emerged as an alternative to acoustic signaling. One of the major impairments in UVLC systems is turbulence-induced fading as a result of temporal variations in temperature and salinity. Furthermore, unlike the horizontal links modeled with fixed turbulence strength, vertical links experience varying turbulence strength based on the depth-dependent temperature and salinity profiles. In this paper, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) UVLC link over a vertical turbulence channel which is modeled as the concatenation of multiple non-mixing layers. Under the assumption of cascaded log-normal channel model, we derive the outage probability of vertical MIMO UVLC links and quantify the diversity gain in terms of the number of transmitter/receivers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728132341
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019
Event7th IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2019 - Sochi, Russian Federation
Duration: Jun 3 2019Jun 6 2019

Publication series

Name2019 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2019

Conference

Conference7th IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, BlackSeaCom 2019
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CitySochi
Period6/3/196/6/19

Keywords

  • Underwater visible light communication
  • diversity order
  • outage probability
  • underwater turbulence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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