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    High-speed and reliable Underwater Wireless Optical Communication system using Multiple-Input Multiple-Output and channel coding techniques for IoUT applications
    (Elsevier B.V., 2020) Naik, P.N.; Acharya Udupi, S.; Krishnan, P.
    In this paper, we investigate the performance of an Underwater Wireless Optical Communication (UWOC) system employing on–off keying modulation at a data-rate of 500 Mbps over a link-range of 30 m. Transmit/receive diversity schemes, namely Multiple-Input to Single-Output (MISO), Single-Input to Multiple-Output (SIMO) and Multiple-Input to Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques with and without RS-coding have been employed to mitigate the effects of weak oceanic turbulence and beam attenuation. The novel closed-form analytical Bit Error Rate (BER) expressions of Single-Input to Single-Output (SISO), SIMO, MISO and MIMO links for un-coded and RS-coded cases have been computed using the hyperbolic tangent distribution and validated with Monte-Carlo simulation results. The obtained BER results show that the use of (63,51) RS-coded 4 × 5 MIMO UWOC system offers at-least 35 dB of transmit power gain compared with the un-coded SISO UWOC system at a BER of 10?5. Emerging technologies like the fifth-generation (5G) networks and the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) will have a high impact on UWOC as these systems require a high degree of information integrity, high data rates and energy efficiency when employed in conjunction with data transfer between underwater vehicles and objects. The proposed RS-coded MIMO UWOC system offers high reliability and power efficiency and it has the potential to be gainfully employed in IoUT applications. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
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    Experimental demonstration and analysis of underwater wireless optical communication link: Design, BCH coded receiver diversity over the turbid and turbulent seawater channels
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc. P.O.Box 18667 Newark NJ 07191-8667, 2020) Naik, P.N.; Udupi, S.A.; Krishnan, P.
    In this article, we demonstrate an experimental underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system in the presence of air bubbles and weak turbulence for varying turbidity levels of the aquatic optical medium. The major limiting factors of the UWOC system are: absorption, scattering, and beam fluctuations; these effects can be mitigated by employing transmitter/receiver diversity schemes and channel codes. In this proposed system, we have employed receiver diversity (selection combining (SC), majority logic combining (MLC), and equal gain combining (EGC)) techniques augmented with Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes to improve the performance of on-off keying modulated UWOC system. The bit error rate (BER) expressions are derived for the proposed system and results are validated using analytic and experimental means. The results show that the proposed system, that is, the receiver employing SC, MLC, and EGC receiver combining techniques augmented with the BCH code provides a transmit power gain of 4, 6, and 8 dB respectively, when compared with the uncoded single-input single-output system, at a BER of 10?5. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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    Co-operative RF-UWOC link performance over hyperbolic tangent log-normal distribution channel with pointing errors
    (Elsevier B.V., 2020) Naik, P.N.; Udupi, S.A.; Krishnan, P.
    In this paper, we have proposed an analytic model and determined the outage probability and average bit error rate (BER) performance of a co-operative radio frequency ? underwater wireless optical communication (RF?UWOC) system. In recent years, UWOC has attracted attention as a useful enabler of underwater activities such as climate and ocean monitoring, surveillance, ocean exploration, underwater wireless optical sensor networks (UWOSN) and internet of underwater things (IoUT) because of its high speed, ease of deployability and wide bandwidth availability which is free of licensing fees. The proposed co-operative RF–UWOC system is designed to establish a connection between an underwater vehicle inside the ocean to a terrestrial ground station using decode?forward and amplify?forward relays. The RF link between the terrestrial ground station to relay is modeled as a Rayleigh distributed channel. The UWOC link between the relay to the underwater vehicle is modeled as being perturbed by the hyperbolic tangent log-normal (HTLN) distribution. To the best of our knowledge, it is for the first time that the perturbations due to weak oceanic turbulence have been modeled using HTLN distribution. This distribution is a member of the class of log-normal distributions derived from hyperbolic tangent distribution. Novel closed-form expressions have been derived for the outage probability and average BER for various modulation techniques that can be employed in this system. The analytical results are evaluated and validated with Monte-Carlo simulations in the presence and absence of pointing errors. The results show that the impact of pointing errors in the RF-UWOC system is to impose an additional SNR penalty of at-least 10 dB to obtain a BER of 10?6 when compared with the system operating without pointing errors. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.