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The paper presents a comprehensive closed-form performance analysis framework for multihop communications over Weibull fading channels. The analyzed scheme consists basically of multiple regenerative relays with generalized high-order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Abdelaziz Soulimani , Mustapha Benjillali , Hatim Chergui , Daniel B. da Costa

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Aboozar Heydaribeni , Hamzeh Beyranvand

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Gewei Zhang , Deqing Wang , Lizhao You , Xiangming Cai , Liqun Fu

We systematically investigate the bubble-induced performance degradation for underwater wireless optical communication (UOWC) with different bubble sizes and positions. By using different transmit and receive diversities, we investigate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Lian-Kuan Chen , Yingjie Shao , Rui Deng

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 Wireless Optical Communication is a key enabling technology for future space-air-ground-sea integrated networks. However, UOWC faces critical hurdles from spatial randomness and stringent energy constraints. These challenges…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Qiyu Ma , Jiajie Xu , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We analyze the secrecy performance of a two-hop mixed radio frequency (RF)/underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system using a decode-and-forward (DF) relay. All RF and UWOC links are modeled by the $\alpha-\mu$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Yi Lou , Ruofan Sun , Julian Cheng , Donghu Nie , Gang Qiao

The breakthroughs of communication distance and data rate have been eagerly anticipated by scientists in the area of underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC), which is seriously limited by the obvious aquatic attenuation in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-19 Xiaohe Dong , Kuokuo Zhang , Caiming Sun , Jun Zhang , Aidong Zhang , Lijun Wang

Mediumband wireless communication refers to wireless communication through a class of channels known as mediumband that exists on the TmTs-plane. This paper, through statistical analysis and computer simulations, studies the performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Dushyantha A Basnayaka , Jiabin Jia

Signal fading due to atmospheric channel impairments and pointing error is a major bottleneck for the performance of optical wireless communication (OWC). In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward (AF) optical relaying to enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Tejas Nimish Shah , Ziyaur Rahman , S. M. Zafaruddin

In this paper, we analyze the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of wireless sensor networks. A wireless sensor node with a single transmitter antenna and multiple receiver antennas is considered here. We consider M (M greater or equal ro 1)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Haider Mehdi , Safeeullah Soomro , W. R. Khan , Abdul Ghafoor Memon , Abdul Hafeez

In this work, an integrated performance evaluation of a decode-and-forward (DF) multi-hop wireless communication system is undertaken over the non-linear generalized $\alpha-\kappa-\mu$ and $\alpha-\kappa-\mu$-Extreme fading models.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Tau Raphael Rasethuntsa , Sandeep Kumar , Manpreet Kaur

Intensified underwater activities have driven the escalating demand for reliable, flexible, and high data-rate underwater communication links. Optical wireless communication (OWC) emerges as the most promising technology for short- to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Yujie Di , Anzi Xu , Lian-Kuan Chen

Cooperative beamforming (CB) has been proposed as a special case of coordinated multi-point techniques in wireless communications. In wireless sensor networks, CB can enable low power communication by allowing a collection of sensor nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Spyridon Vassilaras , George C. Alexandropoulos , Antonis A. Kalis

In this paper, the performance of a promising technology for the next generation wireless communications, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), is investigated. In particular, the bit error rate (BER) performance of downlink NOMA systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Tasneem Assaf , Arafat Al-Dweik , Mohamed El Moursi , Hatem Zeineldin

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Dongling Xu , Xiang Yi , Yalçn Ata , Xinyue Tao , Yuxuan Li , Peng Yue

Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) are of interest to gather data from underwater sensor nodes (SNs) and deliver information to a terrestrial access point (AP) in the uplink transmission, and transfer data from the AP to the SNs in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Pouya Agheli , Hamzeh Beyranvand , Mohammad Javad Emadi

In this work, the performance analysis of a dual-hop relay transmission system composed of asymmetric radio-frequency (RF)/free-space optical (FSO) links with pointing errors is presented. More specifically, we build on the system model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Imran Shafique Ansari , Ferkan Yilmaz , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In a water-air optical wireless communication (OWC) channel, dynamic ocean waves may significantly deflect the light beam from its original direction, thus deteriorating the communication performance. In this letter, a beam tracking system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Yujie Di , Yingjie Shao , Lian-Kuan Chen

Underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) is becoming an attractive technology for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) since it offers high-speed communication links. Although UOWC overcomes the drawbacks of acoustic and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Rawan Alghamdi , Nasir Saeed , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini