Underwater Optical Communication Module: An Extension to the ns-3 Network Simulator

Rabia Qadar; Waleed Bin Qaim; Bo Tan; Jari Nurmi

doi:10.1109/VTC2022-Fall57202.2022.10012885

Underwater Optical Communication Module: An Extension to the ns-3 Network Simulator

Rabia Qadar^*
, Waleed Bin Qaim
, Bo Tan
, Jari Nurmi

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In the last decade, the field of wireless optical communication has gathered immense interest due to its adoption in growing bandwidth-hungry underwater applications. The expensive and non-standardized on-field research measurements call for a reliable simulation tool that allows researchers to realistically design and assess the performance of Underwater Optical Communication (UOC) systems before conducting actual underwater experiments. In this paper, we present a UOC module as an extension to the network simulator ns-3. The module can study the impact of different water conditions on underwater optical networks from the physical layer to the network layer. The proposed UOC module realizes physical layer models of the UOC channels where the added noise and interference effects are modeled as Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN). Results show the capability of our module to facilitate large underwater optical network design and optimization. Since ns-3 is an open-source software, the module has the flexibility and reusability to be further developed by the worldwide research community.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2022-Fall 2022 - Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-5468-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2022-Fall57202.2022.10012885
Publication status	Published - 2023
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - London, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Sept 2022 → 29 Sept 2022

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Name	IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Volume	2022-September
ISSN (Print)	1090-3038

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Conference	IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	26/09/22 → 29/09/22

Funding

Funding from the European Union's MSCA RISE programme under grant agreement No. 10100828. Waleed bin Qaim is supported by the European Union's H2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No.813278 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Bo Tan is part of the “DIOR: Deep Intelligent Optical and Radio Communication Networks” project that has received funding from the European Union’s MSCA RISE programme under grant agreement No. 10100828. Waleed bin Qaim is supported by the European Union’s H2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No.813278 (A-WEAR, http://www.a-wear.eu/).

Keywords

Channel Models
Network Simulator
ns-3
Underwater Optical Communication

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Applied Mathematics

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Underwater Optical Communication Module: An Extension to the ns-3 Network Simulator. / Qadar, Rabia; Qaim, Waleed Bin; Tan, Bo et al.
2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2022-Fall 2022 - Proceedings. IEEE, 2023. (IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference; Vol. 2022-September).

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