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Optical wireless communication (OWC) has the potential to provide high communication speeds that support the massive use of the Internet that is expected in the near future. In OWC, optical access points (APs) are deployed on the celling to…

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This Letter presents a novel hybrid underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system that integrates underwater optical access points (UOAPs) with a passive optical network (PON)-based fiber-optic backhaul to provide a resilient…

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Optical wireless communication (OWC) systems are a promising communication technology that can provide high data rates into the tens of Tb/s and can support multiple users at the same time. This paper investigates the optimum allocation of…

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We investigate underwater optical communication system that is relayed by a single decode-and-forward (DF) relay through an exponential-generalized Gamma distribution (EGG) into a final destination. Specifically, a certain terminal device…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mohammed Amer , Yasser Al-Eryani

This paper provides an overview of how and why acoustic waves are important for underwater communication when compared with radio and optical waves, underwater acoustic channel, it's characteristics and model. Also about the underwater…

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Physical-layer network coding (PNC) can increase end-to-end throughput in bi-directional multi-hop underwater acoustic (UWA) networks. However, multipath delay spread and Doppler-induced inter-carrier interference (ICI) in UWA channels can…

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In underwater acoustic (UWA) communication, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is commonly employed to mitigate the inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by delay spread. However, path-specific Doppler effects in UWA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Xiaoquan You , Hengyu Zhang , Xuehan Wang , Jintao Wang

The rapid expansion of oceanic applications such as underwater surveillance and mineral exploration is driving the need for real-time wireless backhaul of massive observational data. Such demands are challenging to meet using the narrowband…

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Optical Wireless Communication networks (OWC) has emerged as a promising technology that enables high-speed and reliable communication bandwidth for a variety of applications. In this work, we investigated applying Random Linear Network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ahmed Ali Hassan , Ahmed Adnan Qidan , Taisir Elgorashi , Jaafar Elmirghani

The reliability of a vertical underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) network is seriously impacted by turbulence-induced fading due to fluctuations in the water temperature and salinity, which vary with depth. To better assess the…

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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology is crucial for next-generation underwater networks. However, covering multiple users and targets and balancing sensing and communication performance in complex underwater acoustic (UWA)…

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Single aperture reception for underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) is insufficient to deal with oceanic turbulence caused by the combined effect of temperature gradient and air bubbles. This paper analyzes the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ziyaur Rahman , Ankur Bansal , S. M. Zafaruddin

Underwater optical wireless links have limited range and intermittent connectivity due to the hostile aquatic channel impairments and misalignment between the optical transceivers. Therefore, multi-hop communication can expand the…

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Post commercial deployment of fifth-generation (5G) technologies, the consideration of sixth-generation (6G) networks is drawing remarkable attention from research communities. Researchers suggest that similar to 5G, 6G technology must be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Md. Ibrahim , A. S. M. Badrudduza , Md. Shakhawat Hossen , Milton Kumar Kundu , Imran Shafique Ansari

The ability to provide very high data rates is a significant benefit of optical wireless communication (OWC) systems. In this paper, an optical wireless downlink in a data centre that uses wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 O. Z. Alsulami , S. O. M. Saeed , S. H. Mohamed , T. E. H. El-Gorashi , M. T. Alresheedi , J. M. H. Elmirghani

Optical wireless communication is a promising technology for underwater broadband access networks, which are particularly important for high-resolution environmental monitoring applications. This paper focuses on a deep sea monitoring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yoshiaki Inoue , Takahiro Kodama , Tomotaka Kimura

Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) has gained significant attention due to its high-speed data transmission and throughput. Optical wireless channels are often assumed to be flat, but we evaluate frequency selective channels to consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Dianxin Luan , John Thompson

The underwater acoustic channel continues to present significant challenges to efficient throughput performance of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) in varying scenarios. As a result, cross-layer approaches that explore joint…

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