Effect of Receiver’s Tilted Angle on the Capacity for Underwater Wireless Optical Communication

This paper focuses on the effect of the receiver’s tilted angle on the capacity of a clear ocean water Underwater Wireless Optical Communication (UWOC) system. To achieve this goal, the relationship between the channel capacity and the receiver’s tilted angle is investigated. First, we propose a double-exponential fading model with pointing error which can more accurately depict the channel of clear ocean water UWOC instead of the traditional Beer’s law model. Based on this channel model, we present the close-form expression of the capacity bounds of the UWOC system. Then, an optimization problem is formulated to improve the capacity by tilting the receiving plane. Both theoretical analyses and simulation results verify that the capacity bounds of UWOC can be enhanced dramatically by tilting the receiver plane at an optimal angle. Thus, in practice, we can provide an effective design strategy for a UWOC system.