SIMO-Underwater Visible Light Communication (UVLC) system

The advent of visible light communication (VLC) towards 5G and beyond (5GB) networks opened new doors to unveil the mysteries of unguided mediums such as ocean. The varying physicochemical properties of water introduces the underwater optical turbulence (UOT). The UOT of UVLC link is modelled as unified Gamma-Gamma (GG) distribution fading under moderate-to-strong turbulence channel conditions as well as the misalignment of transceivers following exponential fading are included and studied. This study also contains the effect of UOT which is characterized by multiple water layers within the Monte Carlo simulation framework. The end-to-end (E2E) performances of a Single-Input and Multi-Output (SIMO) underwater VLC (UVLC) system is in consideration of Intensity-Modulation/Direct-Detection (IM/DD) technique which is obtained to fulfill the current communication requirements in hostile aqueous channels. More specifically, the probability distribution function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) are derived to obtain the E2E performance metrics of the SIMO-UVLC system in terms of Meijer-G function. Consequently, novel closed-form expressions for average bit-error-rate (ABER) and outage probability of the system are formulated. Finally, the numerical and simulation results are obtained based on the experimental data in mixed water layers of the oceanic environments, and analytically verified through the Monte Carlo simulation approach in harsh channel conditions.