Wavelength dependent channel characterization for underwater optical wireless communications

Author

Weihao Liu ; Difan Zou ; Peilin Wang ; Zhengyuan Xu ; Liuqing Yang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China

fYear

2014

fDate

5-8 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

895

Lastpage

899

Abstract

The underwater scattering channel for line-of-sight (LOS) underwater optical wireless communications in the transmission window (wavelength of 400nm-600nm) is modeled by a ray tracing technique. The inherent seawater optical properties, the scattering and absorption of the suspending particles, are represented by one single parameter-chlorophyll concentration (CC). Path losses for different waters and different ranges are simulated. The influences of some system parameters, such as beam divergence, field of view, and misalignment, to the link path loss are studied. The communication bit-error-rate performance is evaluated based on simulated path losses.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave scattering; error statistics; optical links; ray tracing; underwater optical wireless communication; wireless channels; CC; LOS underwater optical wireless communication; bit error rate performance; chlorophyll concentration; line-of-sight underwater optical wireless communication; path loss; ray tracing technique; seawater optical property; suspending particle absorption; suspending particle scattering; underwater scattering channel; wavelength dependent channel characterization; Absorption; Optical fiber communication; Optical scattering; Optical transmitters; Receivers; Wireless communication; optical wireless; path loss; system parameters; underwater;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (ICSPCC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5272-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPCC.2014.6986327

Filename

6986327