UACE2017 Proceedings: Exploring the Statistical Relation between the Underwater Acoustic and Optical Channels

Session:
Underwater Communications and Networking
Paper:
Exploring the Statistical Relation between the Underwater Acoustic and Optical Channels
Author(s):
Roee Diamant, Filippo Campagnaro, Michele De Filippo, Alberto Testolin, Violeta Sanjuan, Michele Zorzi, Paolo Casari
Abstract:
In this paper, we are interested in finding whether a statistical relationship exists between underwater acoustics and optics, despite the different physics that govern these technologies. Besides the theoretical interest of such a relationship, predicting the quality of the optical links through acoustics is relevant for multimodal communications.\nOur study is based on a large dataset acquired during the NATO ALOMEX 2015 expedi-tion. The dataset consists of several acoustic and optical link characteristics measured at multiple locations, reflecting a diversity of sea environments. Our results, based on a sys-tematic machine learning analysis, show a strong correlation between the properties of acoustic links and the reliability of optical communications. Potentially, this can be lever-aged to predict the state of underwater optical links.
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