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Performance analysis of hybrid underwater wireless system for shallow sea monitoring

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This paper investigates the performance of hybrid dual hop underwater system which has been proposed for monitoring vast region under shallow sea environment. In comparison to conventional acoustic underwater systems, this hybrid underwater opto-acoustic sensor network (UOASN) is designed to offer higher data rates and shorter propagation delays by including optical carrier, which is a basic requirement of real-time monitoring application. An acoustic sensor and an optical sensor are mounted on shallow water floor at different locations that acquire the surrounding information and transmit it continuously to the underwater vehicle (UV) based on round-robin scheduling. UV is comprised of decode-and-forward relaying mechanism. The underwater acoustic link is determined by \(\alpha\)-\({\mathcal {F}}\) fading distribution and underwater optical link follows the mixture Exponential-Generalized Gamma (EGG) model to characterize channel irradiance fluctuations. The novel closed form expressions for various end to end (E2E) signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) statistics such as equivalent probability density function (PDF), cumulative distribution function (CDF) and moments have been derived. Also, the closed form expressions are obtained for outage probability, average bit error rate, ergodic capacity and outage capacity. In order to demonstrate how different acoustic parameter settings and optical turbulence affect the system’s performance, the closed form asymptotic expressions are derived for outage probability and average bit error rate to gain insights of the models. Such analysis proves the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed system.

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Bhatnagar, R., Garg, P. Performance analysis of hybrid underwater wireless system for shallow sea monitoring. Photon Netw Commun 46, 78–89 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-023-01003-2

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