Underwater wireless optical communication channel modeling and performance evaluation using vector radiative transfer theory

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1620-1627

  Jaruwatanadilok, Sermsak ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Polarization; Radiative transfer; Scattering; Underwater communication; Wireless optical communication

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; ATTENUATION EFFECTS; BIT RATES; CHANNEL MODELS; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; DATA COMMUNICATION.; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NATURAL WATERS; POLARIZATION BEHAVIORS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORIES; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTIONS; SCATTERING EFFECTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS; VECTOR RADIATIVE TRANSFERS; WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS;

ASTROPHYSICS; CIVIL AVIATION; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GEOPHYSICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOSFET DEVICES; PHOTONICS; POLARIZATION; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STEREOCHEMISTRY; VECTORS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 57049170393     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2008.081202     Document Type: Article

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