Underwater optical communications for swarm Unmanned Vehicle Network

Author

Tabacchiera, Marco ; Betti, S. ; Persia, Samuela

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

12-14 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Particular attention has been recently devoted to Underwater Wireless Networks based on swarm configuration, in which decisions are taken in collaborative manner. Traditionally, underwater communications are based on acoustic signaling, with consequent drawbacks due to narrow band channel and multipath propagation effects. Performance improvement could be achieved by optical communications among the nodes when water conditions permit. A system analysis of optical communication systems is presented in order to obtain a tradeoff between network performance and applications.

Keywords

mobile robots; remotely operated vehicles; telerobotics; underwater optical wireless communication; wireless channels; acoustic signaling; collaborative manner; multipath propagation effects; narrow band channel; swarm configuration; swarm unmanned vehicle network; underwater optical communications; underwater wireless networks; Military communication; Optical receivers; Routing; Optical Underwater Communications; Swarm Configuration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Technologies, 2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on

Conference_Location

Naples

Print_ISBN

978-8-8872-3718-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Fotonica.2014.6843839

Filename

6843839