Outage performance analysis of vertical underwater VLC links

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the outage performance of vertical stratified underwater optical links in the presence of moderate/strong turbulence conditions. Specifically, we consider the cascaded Gamma-Gamma turbulence channel model and derive a closed-form expression for outage probability. We then use our derived expression to investigate the achievable diversity order (DO) and asymptotic diversity order (ADO). We further confirm our derivations through Monte Carlo simulations.