Study of Ultraviolet Mobile Ad Hoc Network

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) as an up-to-date wireless network has some unique features such as topology alters constantly, infrastructure-free, any node within the network is communication destination as well as router, etc. These characteristics of MANET give rise to its great flexibility and cost efficiency. Traditional MANET operates in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, where the available bandwidth is facing the challenge of rapidly increasing demands. Ultraviolet (UV) provides a feasible complement to RF wireless MANET because some of its advantages: miniaturized device, low-cost implementation, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) communication, high security, low background noise and potential high speed data rate. In this paper, we investigate several aspects of the performance of the combined UV MANET by simulation. Various issues related to the performance of UV MANET such as Throughput, bit error rate (BER) and signal/noise ratio (SNR) were collected and analyzed. The analysis will be of great assistance in the design and implementation of such UV MANET.