TY - GEN
T1 - Performance Characterization of Vertical Underwater VLC Links in the Presence of Turbulence
AU - Elamassie, Mohammed
AU - Uysal, Murat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/9/24
Y1 - 2018/9/24
N2 - In this paper, we investigate the performance of vertical underwater visible light communication (VLC) links. In vertical links, water properties such as temperature and salinity change with the depth. This leads to changes in the refractive index eventually affecting the variance of turbulence-induced fading. Considering such variations with respect to depth, we first model the vertical underwater link as the concatenation of multiple layers and develop a statistical turbulence channel model based on the cascaded structure of fading coefficients. Then, we use this expression to formulate a closed form expression for bit error rate performance. We confirm the analytical derivations through simulations.
AB - In this paper, we investigate the performance of vertical underwater visible light communication (VLC) links. In vertical links, water properties such as temperature and salinity change with the depth. This leads to changes in the refractive index eventually affecting the variance of turbulence-induced fading. Considering such variations with respect to depth, we first model the vertical underwater link as the concatenation of multiple layers and develop a statistical turbulence channel model based on the cascaded structure of fading coefficients. Then, we use this expression to formulate a closed form expression for bit error rate performance. We confirm the analytical derivations through simulations.
KW - Underwater visible light communication
KW - error rate performance
KW - underwater turbulence
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U2 - 10.1109/CSNDSP.2018.8471888
DO - 10.1109/CSNDSP.2018.8471888
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055545204
T3 - 2018 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2018
BT - 2018 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2018
Y2 - 18 July 2018 through 20 July 2018
ER -