OWC 2022 : Special Issue: Underwater Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) Systems

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, due to the threat of the increasingly evident global climate change and the foreseeable depletion of many resources, there has been a growing interest in ocean exploration. This has prompted research and development of long-distance, high-speed, and high-security underwater OWC links for scientific, industrial, and military purposes. In this context, the need to transmit large amounts of data has become vital in applications related to oceanographic studies, offshore exploration, surveillance environmental, disaster prevention, telemetry, real-time video transmission, and control of docking in ports, among others. This Special Issue cordially invites original manuscripts in, but not limited to, the following:

Oceanic turbulence modeling and simulation;
Scattering and oceanic turbulence mitigation techniques;
Fiber-wireless communication systems;
Performance analysis and signal processing of advanced underwater OWC systems;
Channel capacity analysis;
Hybrid underwater OWC/acoustic technology;
Modulation, coding, and detection schemes;
Underwater OWC sensor networks;
Underwater OWC positioning and localization systems;
Relay-assisted technology;
Orbital angular momentum for underwater communication;
Quantum-key distribution techniques.

Keywords

underwater optical wireless communication;
oceanic turbulence; scattering;
relay-assisted communication;
orbital angular momentum;
hybrid technology;
quantum key distribution

Dr. Rubén Boluda-Ruiz
Guest Editor