An Overview of Underwater Optical Wireless Channel Modelling Techniques : (Invited Paper)

This paper outlines the importance of gaining a good knowledge of the underwater channel. The channel is discussed in terms of absorption and scattering with an explanation of the processes involved in both. Then a review of the various techniques used to model these processes is presented. Some results obtained via a Monte-Carlo simulation of the channel are presented and discussed, showing how channels with similar parameters but different scattering conditions can have very different responses.