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Performance Evaluation of Underwater Optical Wireless Communication Depending on the Modulation Scheme

  • Jeong, Gabin (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyungsung University) ;
  • Kim, Sung-Man (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyungsung University)
  • Received : 2021.10.22
  • Accepted : 2021.12.30
  • Published : 2022.02.25
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Abstract

Underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) is a good candidate for high-speed underwater wireless communication. In this work, we compare the performance of several modulation techniques for a UOWC system consisting of a light-emitting diode (LED) with an operating wavelength of 405 nm and a Si avalanche photodiode (APD). In this work, we consider six modulation schemes: 4-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), 8-QAM, quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), binary phase shift keying (BPSK), on-off keying (OOK), and 4-pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). We also consider the cases of pure water and seawater for the working conditions. Our results show that 4-QAM and 8-QAM perform the best, in terms of communication distance and transmission power efficiency, for all water types considered.

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Acknowledgement

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant, funded by the Korean government (Ministry of Education) (No. NRF-2021R1I1A3047031); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant, funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. NRF-2019R1F1A1045956).

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