Effective Secrecy Throughput Analysis Over Underwater Wireless Optical Channel

Abstract

The advantages of physical layer security (PLS) have led researchers to apply this in various communication scenarios, such as radio frequency (RF) communication, free space optical (FSO) communication, and underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC). This paper analyzes the PLS, specifically the effective secrecy throughput (EST) over the mixture exponential generalized gamma (mEGG) UOWC channel link in the presence of a passive eavesdropper. To achieve this goal, firstly the closed-form expression of the secure outage probability (SOP) of the system is derived, and using that SOP expression, the final EST expression is found considering the underwater turbulence (air bubble and temperature gradient) as well as two different detection scenarios (heterodyne detection (HDD) & intensity modulation/direct detection(IM/DD)) in terms of Meijer-G functions. Moreover, the average secrecy capacity (ASC) of such a scenario is also exploited in this work. Finally, the expressions are verified through Monte-Carlo simulation.