Evaluation of underwater optical wireless channels over F turbulence for different detection types

Zedini, Emna and Ata, Yalçın and Al-Sallami, Farah Mahdi and Rajbhandari, Sujan (2024) Evaluation of underwater optical wireless channels over F turbulence for different detection types. IEEE Transactions on Communications. ISSN 0090-6778 (https://doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2024.3454696)

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Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive performance study for the underwater optical wireless communication (UOWCs) channel, accounting for the effects of attenuation, turbulence, pointing errors, and fluctuations in the angle-of-arrival (AOA), modeled by the Beer-Lambert model, the Fisher-Snedecor F turbulence, Hoyt, and Rayleigh distributions, respectively. Considering the stochastic nature of UOWC, closed-form expressions for outage probability, average bit-error-rate (BER), and ergodic capacity are derived. The results revealed that increasing the field-of-view (FoV) reduces the impact of aoa fluctuations. Asymmetric two-dimensional beam misalignment exhibits better outage probability performance compared to symmetric misalignment. Furthermore, heterodyne detection consistently outperforms direct detection. When employing heterodyne detection, M-quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM) achieves superior BER performance. Additionally, as absorption increases with longer wavelengths, BER performance deteriorates. Narrower beamwidths improve ergodic capacity by enhancing received signal power.

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Zedini, Emna, Ata, Yalçın, Al-Sallami, Farah Mahdi and Rajbhandari, Sujan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8742-118X;

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https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00090584
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