Underwater Optical Wireless Communications, Networking, and Localization: A Survey

By Nasir Saeed, Abdulkadir Celik, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Mohamed-Slim Alouini. Ad hoc networks, 2018

480 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract Underwater wireless communications can be carried out through acoustic, radio frequency (RF), and optical waves. Compared to its bandwidth limited acoustic and RF counterparts, underwater optical wireless communications (UOWCs) can support higher data rates at low latency levels. However, the severe aquatic channel conditions (e.g., absorption, scattering, turbulence, etc.) pose great challenges for UOWCs and significantly reduce the attainable communication ranges, which necessitates efficient networking and localization solutions. Therefore, we provide a comprehensive survey on the challenges, advances, and prospects of underwater optical wireless networks (UOWNs) from a layer by layer perspective which includes: (1) Physical layer issues including propagation characteristics, channel modeling, and modulation techniques (2) Data link layer problems covering link configurations, link budgets, performance metrics, and multiple access schemes; (3) Network layer topics containing relaying techniques and potential routing algorithms; (4) Transport layer subjects such as connectivity, reliability, flow and congestion control; (5) Application layer goals, and (6) Localization and its impacts on UOWN layers. Finally, we outline the open research challenges and point out the prospective directions for underwater optical wireless communications, networking, and localization studies.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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How researchers see this paper

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. Mohamed-Slim Alouini
2. Khaled Ben Letaief
3. Wei Zhang
4. Rui Zhang
5. Andrea J. Goldsmith
6. Georges Kaddoum

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Luiz M. Matheus
2. Luiz Filipe Menezes Vieira
3. Mohamed-Slim Alouini
4. Omprakash Gnawali
5. Basem Shihada
6. Alex Borges Vieira
7. Shuping Dang
8. Osama Amin

In Ocean Engineering

1. Luiz Filipe Menezes Vieira
2. Mohamed-Slim Alouini
3. Omprakash Gnawali

Citations in the corpus

• What should 6G be? (2019, background): “extending the communication network to underwater environment is a crucial and even necessary element of worldwide connectivity, especially that more than 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water, and several marine applications needs live monitoring [43].”
• Visible Light Communication: Concepts, Applications and Challenges (2019, background): “The use of visible light communication in underwater scenarios has been explored in [114], [115].”