Underwater wireless information transfer is of great interest to the military, industry, and the
scientific community, as it plays an important role in tactical surveillance, pollution …

Optical wireless communication (OWC) refers to transmission in unguided propagation
media through the use of optical carriers, ie, visible, infrared (IR), and ultraviolet (UV) bands …

The next generation (NG) optical technologies will unveil certain unique features, namely
ultra-high data rate, broadband multiple services, scalable bandwidth, and flexible …

Underwater wireless communications can be carried out through acoustic, radio frequency
(RF), and optical waves. Compared to its bandwidth limited acoustic and RF counterparts …

Even though most of the Earth's area is sheltered by the hydrosphere, the underwater world
is nonetheless a challenging puzzle that has drawn the attention of scientists and …

This manuscript presents a survey on new challenges in wireless communication systems
and discusses recent approaches to address some recently raised problems by the wireless …

This paper presents FreeBee, which enables direct unicast as well as cross-
technology/channel broadcast among three popular wireless technologies: WiFi, ZigBee …

The use of optical free-space emissions to provide indoor wireless com-nications has been
studied extensively since the pioneering work of Gfeller and Bapst in 1979 [1]. These studies …

Because of its ability of providing very high data transmission rates over distances up to
several tens of meters, underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) has attracted …

Emerging maritime applications arising from the continued growth of the marine economy
have an inherent need for high data rate underwater wireless links. Within this context …