Open AccessBidirectional Underwater Visible Light Communication
Author(s) -
Arsyad Ramadhan Darlis,
Andre Widura,
Muhamad Rifan Andrian
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 2088-8708
DOI - 10.11591/ijece.v8i6.pp5203-5214
Subject(s) - transmitter , rgb color model , underwater , visible light communication , attenuation , underwater acoustic communication , computer science , wavelength , optics , optical filter , signal (programming language) , optical communication , channel (broadcasting) , telecommunications , light emitting diode , physics , artificial intelligence , oceanography , programming language , geology
In this paper, a novel bidirectional underwater visible light communication (BiUVLC) is proposed. The VLC transmitter transmits an information signal using the one of RGB LED through the water tank that represents an underwater environment and then is received by VLC receiver via a color filter. The color LEDs and color filters are utilized in bidirectional systems. The single link is created by a LED on the transmitter and the color filter on the receiver with the same color which represents a single wavelength. The performance of the proposed BiUVLC system was evaluated via implementations. The experimental result shows that the transmitted signal undergoes attenuation over the underwater optical channel and the pair of the blue wavelength in link 1 and the green wavelength in link 2 have the best performance than the other wavelength pair. In the crosstalk measurement, the red wavelength color is the worst in the underwater environment.