Underwater Optical Wireless Communications, Networking, and Localization: A Survey
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2019-06-27Preprint Posting Date
2018-02-28Online Publication Date
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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.Citation
Saeed, N., Celik, A., Al-Naffouri, T. Y., & Alouini, M.-S. (2019). Underwater optical wireless communications, networking, and localization: A survey. Ad Hoc Networks, 94, 101935. doi:10.1016/j.adhoc.2019.101935Sponsors
This work is supported by Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Ad Hoc Networksae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.adhoc.2019.101935