TY - JOUR
T1 - Performance characterization of underwater visible light communication
AU - Elamassie, Mohammed
AU - Miramirkhani, Farshad
AU - Uysal, Murat
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received December 17, 2017; revised June 12, 2018 and August 2, 2018; accepted August 18, 2018. Date of publication August 28, 2018; date of current version January 15, 2019. This work was supported by the Turkish Scientific and Research Council under Grant 215E119. The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was A. Khalighi. (Corresponding author: Mohammed Elamassie.) The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Özyegˇin University, 34794 Istanbul, Turkey (e-mail: mohammed.elamassie@ozu.edu.tr; farshad.miramirkhani@ozu.edu.tr; murat. uysal@ozyegin.edu.tr).
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PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - In this paper, we investigate the performance limits of underwater visible light communication (UVLC) systems. We first develop a closed-form path loss expression as a function of transceiver parameters and water type. We then utilize this new expression to determine the maximum achievable link distance for UVLC systems in pure sea, clear ocean, coastal water, and harbor water. Our results demonstrate that the maximum achievable distance is limited to a few tens of meters. This necessitates the deployment of relay-assisted UVLC systems to extend the transmission range. We consider both detect-and-forward and amplify-and-forward relaying. For each relaying method, we first consider a dual-hop UVLC system and determine optimal relay placement to minimize the bit error rate (BER). Then, we consider a multi-hop system with equidistant relays and determine the maximum achievable distance for a given number of hops to satisfy a targeted end-to-end BER.
AB - In this paper, we investigate the performance limits of underwater visible light communication (UVLC) systems. We first develop a closed-form path loss expression as a function of transceiver parameters and water type. We then utilize this new expression to determine the maximum achievable link distance for UVLC systems in pure sea, clear ocean, coastal water, and harbor water. Our results demonstrate that the maximum achievable distance is limited to a few tens of meters. This necessitates the deployment of relay-assisted UVLC systems to extend the transmission range. We consider both detect-and-forward and amplify-and-forward relaying. For each relaying method, we first consider a dual-hop UVLC system and determine optimal relay placement to minimize the bit error rate (BER). Then, we consider a multi-hop system with equidistant relays and determine the maximum achievable distance for a given number of hops to satisfy a targeted end-to-end BER.
KW - Multi-hop transmission
KW - Path loss
KW - Ray tracing
KW - Serial relaying
KW - Underwater visible light communication (UVLC)
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U2 - 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2867498
DO - 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2867498
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052636885
SN - 0090-6778
VL - 67
SP - 543
EP - 552
JO - IEEE Transactions on Communications
JF - IEEE Transactions on Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 8449320
ER -