Recent advances in underwater optical wireless communications

Johnson, Laura; Jasman, Faezah; Green, Roger J.; Leeson, Mark S.

doi:10.3723/ut.32.167

Cited by 114 publications

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“…Noting that the average depth of the ocean is around 4.3 km, the photic zone covers only a thin layer but still poses the greatest biomass of all oceans. Extending from the sea surface to the bottom, the chlorophyll variation curve is observed to follow a skewed Gaussian profile [53]. Accordingly, the attenuation coefficient has shown to start from 0.05 m −1 and reaches the peak record 0.1 m −1 around 100 m depth, which starts decreasing for deeper waters [52].…”

Section: B Underwater Propagation Characteristics Of Optical Wavesmentioning

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Underwater optical wireless communications, networking, and localization: A survey

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Underwater wireless communications can be carried out through acoustic, radio frequency (RF), and optical waves. Compared to its bandwidth limited acoustic and RF counterparts, underwater optical wireless communications (UOWCs) can support higher data rates at low latency levels. However, severe aquatic channel conditions (e.g., absorption, scattering, turbulence, etc.) pose great challenges for UOWCs and significantly reduce the attainable communication ranges, which necessitates efficient networking and localization solutions. Therefore, we provide a comprehensive survey on the challenges, advances, and prospects of underwater optical wireless networks (UOWNs) from a layer by layer perspective which includes: 1) Potential network architectures; 2) Physical layer issues including propagation characteristics, channel modeling, and modulation techniques 3) Data link layer problems covering link configurations, link budgets, performance metrics, and multiple access schemes; 4) Network layer topics containing relaying techniques and potential routing algorithms; 5) Transport layer subjects such as connectivity, reliability, flow and congestion control; 6) Application layer goals and state-of-the-art UOWN applications, and 7) Localization and its impacts on UOWN layers. Finally, we outline the open research challenges and point out the future directions for underwater optical wireless communications, networking, and localization research.

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Section: B Underwater Propagation Characteristics Of Optical Wavesmentioning

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“…However, the microwave signal is highly attenuated by the water, which significantly limits the distance of the underwater communication (ranging only few meters) [8]. To solve the problem that high-bandwidth and longdistance are both required in the underwater wireless communication, another method of transferring optical signal over underwater link was proposed [3,9].…”

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Highly-stable laser-based underwater radio-frequency transfer with electronic phase compensation

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Bai

Guo

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Optics Communications

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“…OWC combines the flexibility of wireless communication and the high speed and bandwidth of optical communication. As its enabling technologies rapidly advance, OWC is finding its place in many indoor, outdoor, space and underwater applications, such as indoor local area networks and data centers [4][5], mobile networks backhaul [6], space communication [7], and underwater sensing [8].…”

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Optical wireless communications for airport surface operations: Opportunities and challenges

Hamza

2016

2016 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS)

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Application of optical wireless communication (OWC) for vehicular communications has witnessed tremendous progress and development during the last decade. In OWC vehicular links, lights from vehicles and road infrastructure (e.g., lighting and signages) are used to establish vehicleto-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) links to exchange information for efficient and safer road operation. In this paper, we motivate the research of using OWC to facilitate the Data Communications (Data Comm) capability of the NextGen framework by investigating the potential of using OWC during ground operations. We discuss the opportunities and advantages of using OWC in airports as well the challenges. We also present and discuss different possible solutions for such challenges.

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Recent advances in underwater optical wireless communications

Cited by 114 publications

References 29 publications

Underwater optical wireless communications, networking, and localization: A survey

Underwater optical wireless communications, networking, and localization: A survey

Highly-stable laser-based underwater radio-frequency transfer with electronic phase compensation

Optical wireless communications for airport surface operations: Opportunities and challenges

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