Abstract
This paper focuses on investigating the effect of the receiver’s tilted angle on the channel capacity of an underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system, in which an avalanche photodiode (APD) detector is adopted as the receiver. Under the non-negativity, peak power, and average power constraints, the lower bounds on the capacity of UWOC are derived in detail according to different average-to-peak power ratios. With modeling achieving the maximum of the lower bounds of the capacity as an optimization object, we prove that the proposed optimization issue is in fact a simple convex optimization about the tilted angle of the APD receiver, and then present related theoretical solution for it. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results show that by appropriately tilting the receiver, we can significantly enhance the final capacity performance of the UWOC with APD receiver.
Highlights
Underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) has attracted great attention in recent years due to its high data rate, low latency, and solid reliability compared with other traditional underwater communication ways, for example, the acoustic and radio frequency (RF) communications [1,2]
In underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC), the received signal suffers severe attenuation caused by the optical properties of underwater channel, namely, absorption and scattering, which is defined as channel loss in [3,4] and inevitably degrades the system performance
References [15,16] investigated the performance bounds of the channel capacity when the input-dependent noise term is introduced in a free space optical (FSO) communication situation, the key channel loss factor in the transmitting signal construction was neglected to simplify the system modeling and performance analysis
Summary
Underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) has attracted great attention in recent years due to its high data rate, low latency, and solid reliability compared with other traditional underwater communication ways, for example, the acoustic and radio frequency (RF) communications [1,2]. References [15,16] investigated the performance bounds of the channel capacity when the input-dependent noise term is introduced in a free space optical (FSO) communication situation, the key channel loss factor in the transmitting signal construction was neglected to simplify the system modeling and performance analysis. This makes the receiving signal model of APD receiver in [15,16] incomplete and the results about the capacity bounds derived in them could not be used directly.
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