Underwater Wireless Optical Communication(UWOC)
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Date
2024
Authors
Bayan Shtaiwi
Hadeel Masri
Mayson Alawneh
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Abstract
Underwater wireless communication refers to transmitting data in unguided
water environment through the use of wireless carriers, i.e., radio frequency
wave, acoustic wave, and optical wave. We focus, in this thesis, on the
underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) that employs optical
wave as the transmission carriers. In comparison to RF and acoustic
counterparts, UWOC has a much higher transmission bandwidth, thus
providing much higher data rate. Due to this high speed transmission
advantage, UWOC has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Many
potential applications of UWOC systems have been proposed fo r
environmental monitoring, offshore exploration, disaster precaution, and
military operations. However, UWOC systems also suffer from severe
absorption and scattering introduced by underwater channel. In order to
overcome these technical challenges, sever al new system design
approaches, which are different from the conventional terrestrial free space
optical communication, have been explored in recent years.