RT Conference Proceedings T1 High-speed Underwater Wireless Optical Communication: Potential, Challenges, and Possible Solutions A1 Alouini, Mohamed-Slim K1 Comunicaciones AB Traditional underwater communication systems rely on acoustic modems due their reliability and long range. However their limited data rates, lead to the exploration of alternative techniques. In this talk, we briefly go over the potential offered by underwater wireless optical communication systems. We then summarize some of the underwater channel challenges going from severe absorption and scattering that need to be surpassed before such kind of systems can be deployed in practice. We finally present some of the on-going research directions in the area of underwater wireless optical communication systems in order to (i) better characterize and model the underwater optical channel and (ii) design, develop, and test experimentally new suitable modulation and coding techniques suitable for this environment. YR 2017 FD 2017-07-11 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14192 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14192 LA eng NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech. DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 19 ene 2026