AquaOptical: a lightweight device for high-rate long-range underwater point-to-point communication
DownloadDoniec-2009-AquaOptical a lightweight device for high-rate long-range underwater point-to-point communication.pdf (1011.Kb)
PUBLISHER_POLICY
Publisher Policy
Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.
Terms of use
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
This paper describes AquaOptical, an underwater optical communication system. Three optical modems have been developed: a long range system, a short range system, and a hybrid. We describe their hardware and software architectures and highlight trade-offs. We present pool and ocean experiments with each system. In clear water AquaOptical was tested to achieve a data rate of 1.2 Mbit/sec at distances up to 30 m. The system was not tested beyond 30 m. In water with visibility estimated at 3 m AquaOptical achieved communication at data rates of 0.6 Mbit/sec at distances up to 9 m.
Date issued
2010-03Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceJournal
OCEANS MTS/IEEE Conference, 2009
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
Doniec, Marek, Iuliu Vasilescu, Mandar Chitre, Carrick Detweiler, Matthias Hoffman-Kuhnt, and Daniela Rus (2010). "AquaOptical: a lightweight device for high-rate long-range underwater point-to-point communication." OCEANS 2009 (Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE): 1-6. © 2010 IEEE
Version: Final published version
Other identifiers
INSPEC Accession Number: 11155029
ISBN
978-1-4244-4960-6
Keywords
AquaOptical, hybrid system, long range system, ocean experiments, optical modems, pool experiments, short range system, underwater optical communication system, underwater point-to-point communication