Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Underwater Visible Light Communications
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) offer paradigm shift towards enhancing the capabilities of wireless communications. The use of this emerging technology in the realm of underwater wireless systems is a promising solution to overcome the limitations pertinent to such challenging environments. I...
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| author | Yalcin Ata Hanaa Abumarshoud Lina Bariah Sami Muhaidat Muhammad Ali Imran |
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| description | Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) offer paradigm shift towards enhancing the capabilities of wireless communications. The use of this emerging technology in the realm of underwater wireless systems is a promising solution to overcome the limitations pertinent to such challenging environments. In this paper, we quantify the performance enhancement offered by the integration of IRS technology in the context of underwater optical wireless communication (OWC). Specifically, we derive a closed-form expression for the outage probability over log-normal channels, taking into consideration the underwater attenuation, pointing error, and turbulence effects. The underwater turbulent medium is characterized by the recently introduced Oceanic Turbulence Optical Power Spectrum (OTOPS) model that uses the practical values of average temperature and salinity concentration in earth basins. The presented numerical results take into account the effects of the turbulent medium as well as the communication system parameters (i.e., communication range, receiver aperture diameter, number of IRS). Our results show that IRSs can offer significant enhancement in the reliability of underwater OWC systems under attenuation, beam displacement, and turbulence effects. Moreover, the combined effect of using a large number of reflecting surfaces and a larger aperture diameter yields a more noticeable improvement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7f570e38e8ae4b10ab2da476e0c849742023-02-21T00:00:13ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552023-01-0115111010.1109/JPHOT.2023.323591610013366Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Underwater Visible Light CommunicationsYalcin Ata0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7781-4182Hanaa Abumarshoud1Lina Bariah2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7244-1663Sami Muhaidat3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4649-9399Muhammad Ali Imran4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-9136Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, OSTIM Technical University, Ankara, TurkeyJames Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K.Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAEKU Center for Cyber-Physical Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAEJames Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K.Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) offer paradigm shift towards enhancing the capabilities of wireless communications. The use of this emerging technology in the realm of underwater wireless systems is a promising solution to overcome the limitations pertinent to such challenging environments. In this paper, we quantify the performance enhancement offered by the integration of IRS technology in the context of underwater optical wireless communication (OWC). Specifically, we derive a closed-form expression for the outage probability over log-normal channels, taking into consideration the underwater attenuation, pointing error, and turbulence effects. The underwater turbulent medium is characterized by the recently introduced Oceanic Turbulence Optical Power Spectrum (OTOPS) model that uses the practical values of average temperature and salinity concentration in earth basins. The presented numerical results take into account the effects of the turbulent medium as well as the communication system parameters (i.e., communication range, receiver aperture diameter, number of IRS). Our results show that IRSs can offer significant enhancement in the reliability of underwater OWC systems under attenuation, beam displacement, and turbulence effects. Moreover, the combined effect of using a large number of reflecting surfaces and a larger aperture diameter yields a more noticeable improvement.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10013366/Visible light communication (VLC)intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC)Internet-of-Underwater-Things (IoUT) |
| spellingShingle | Yalcin Ata Hanaa Abumarshoud Lina Bariah Sami Muhaidat Muhammad Ali Imran Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Underwater Visible Light Communications IEEE Photonics Journal Visible light communication (VLC) intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) Internet-of-Underwater-Things (IoUT) |
| title | Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Underwater Visible Light Communications |
| title_full | Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Underwater Visible Light Communications |
| title_fullStr | Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Underwater Visible Light Communications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Underwater Visible Light Communications |
| title_short | Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Underwater Visible Light Communications |
| title_sort | intelligent reflecting surfaces for underwater visible light communications |
| topic | Visible light communication (VLC) intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) Internet-of-Underwater-Things (IoUT) |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10013366/ |
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