Underwater optical communications for swarm Unmanned Vehicle Network

Particular attention has been recently devoted to Underwater Wireless Networks based on swarm configuration, in which decisions are taken in collaborative manner. Traditionally, underwater communications are based on acoustic signaling, with consequent drawbacks due to narrow band channel and multipath propagation effects. Performance improvement could be achieved by optical communications among the nodes when water conditions permit. A system analysis of optical communication systems is presented in order to obtain a tradeoff between network performance and applications.