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  • Hongyan Jiang
  • Hongbing Qiu
  • Ning He
  • Wasiu Popoola
  • Zahir Ahmad
  • Sujan Rajbhandari
    Coventry University
The performance of underwater visible light communication (UVLC) system is severely affected by absorption, scattering and turbulence. In this article, we study the performance of spectral efficient DC-biased optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) in combination with the transceiver spatial diversity in turbulence channel. Based on the approximation of the weighted sum of lognormal random variables (RVs), we derived a theoretical exact bit error rate (BER) for DCO-OFDM systems with spatial diversity. The simulation results are compared with the analytical prediction, confirming the validity of the analysis. It is shown that spatial diversity can effectively reduce the turbulence-induced channel fading. The obtained results can be useful for designing, predicting, and evaluating the DCO-OFDM UVLC system in a weak oceanic turbulence condition.

Keywords

  • OFDM, spatial diversity, turbulence mitigation, underwater visible light communications (UVLC)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2271-2277
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Lightwave Technology
Volume38
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2020
Externally publishedYes
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