A Survey of Underwater Optical Wireless Communications
University of British Columbia · University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Underwater wireless communications refer to data transmission in unguided water environment through wireless carriers, i.e., radio-frequency (RF) wave, acoustic wave, and optical wave. In comparison to RF and acoustic counterparts, underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) can provide a much higher transmission bandwidth and much higher data rate. Therefore, we focus, in this paper, on the UOWC that employs optical wave as the transmission carrier. In recent years, many potential applications of UOWC systems have been proposed for environmental monitoring, offshore exploration, disaster precaution, and military operations. However, UOWC systems also suffer from severe absorption and scattering…
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- FWCI
- 89.75
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- 100%
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- 237
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5Topics & keywords
- Underwater
- Wireless
- Underwater acoustic communication
- Optical wireless
- Telecommunications
- Computer science
- Bandwidth (computing)
- Transmission (telecommunications)