Asymmetric Satellite-Underwater Visible Light Communication System for Oceanic Monitoring

In this paper, we investigate the performance of the proposed oceanic monitoring system that connects the oceanic life with the terrestrial life. For continuous real-time monitoring and ubiquitous coverage, the communication system is aided with a satellite link. Multiple sensor nodes (SN) are deployed at different water levels that collect sensor data and transmit it to underwater vehicles (UV) using underwater visible light communication (UVLC). The UVLC system provides higher data rates at lower latency as compared to existing radio frequency (RF) and acoustic wave alternative for underwater communication (UWC). The UWC system comprises of horizontal haul (HH) and vertical haul (VH) UVLC links modelled using turbulence induced fading. The vertical haul links are modelled as the concatenation of successive non-mixing turbulent links to take into account the change of turbulence with the change of water level. The UVs and submarines communicate with the floating vessels (FVs) using vertical haul UVLC link. The UVs collect the data from the low power sensor nodes and offloads it to the FVs, which further beams it to the satellite on the RF carriers. The novel expressions of performance metrics such as outage probability and average bit error rate are derived. Further, the performance of the system is analysed for various system and channel parameters to prove the feasibility of the proposed communication system

O2O: An Underwater VLC Approach in Baltic and North Sea

Recently, underwater visible light communication (UVLC) has become a potential wireless carrier candidate in the acrimonious mingled ocean straits. The combined strait of the North and Baltic ocean is a harsh and strongly turbid aqueous zone that contributes signal fading at a large scale. Due to this, we are proposing a UVLC system within the Baltic-North ocean mingled water under strong turbulence channel conditions. In this study, the Gamma-Gamma distribution is used to model UVLC link under an OOK modulation scheme. Subsequently, the reason for the unavailability of the latest North-Baltic oceanographic data within this bayou, we investigate the BER and outage probability performance of the proposed system within the mingled strait for the whole year during 1996s. Throughout, this work, the performance is obtained individually in both of the oceans and then compared with the heterogeneous state. It is noteworthy that the analytical work has been considered of the following distinct physio-chemical properties and the data provided for each ocean. Additionally, the simulation results are verified the analytical work of the proposed system model

On the Intercept Probability and Secure Outage Analysis of Mixed (α-κ-μ)-Shadowed and Málaga Turbulent Models

This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea-Grant funded by the Korean Government (Ministry of Science and ICT) under Grant NRF 2020R1A2B5B02002478, and in part by Sejong University through its Faculty Research Program under Grant 20212023Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Enhancing security of TAS/MRC-based mixed RF-UOWC system with induced underwater turbulence effect

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 human-centric where high secrecy together with high data rate will be the key features. These challenges can be easily overcome utilizing PHY security techniques over high-frequency free-space or underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) technologies. But in long-distance communication, turbulence components drastically affect the optical signals, leading to the invention of the combination of radio-frequency (RF) links with optical links. This article deals with the secrecy performance analysis of a mixed RF-UOWC system where an eavesdropper tries to intercept RF communications. RF and optical links undergo η−μ and mixture exponential generalized Gamma distributions, respectively. To keep pace with the high data rate of the optical technologies, we exploit the antenna selection scheme at the source and maximal ratio combining diversity at the relay and eavesdropper, while the eavesdropper is unaware of the antenna selection scheme. We derive closed-form expressions of average secrecy capacity, secrecy outage probability, and probability of strictly positive secrecy capacity to demonstrate the impacts of the system parameters on the secrecy behavior. Finally, the expressions are corroborated via Monte Carlo simulations