RT Journal Article T1 Impact of scattering on secrecy outage probability of underwater optical wireless links A1 Boluda-Ruiz, Rubén A1 Salcedo-Serrano, Pedro A1 Castillo-Vázquez, Beatriz A1 García Zambrana, Antonio A1 Garrido-Balsells, José María K1 Fotónica K1 Optoelectrónica AB The analysis of physical layer security aspects in underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) systems has attracted considerable attention in recent years due to the increasing need to transmit large and secure amounts of data. This article, therefore, performs a careful investigation of the secrecy outage probability (SOP) of UOWC systems over Weibull oceanic turbulence channels with angular misalignment errors that are affected by absorption and scattering. The SOP performance is then evaluated under the intercepting attempt of underwater eavesdroppers or unauthorized drones that search for an opportunity to capture radiated power with the goal of decreasing the channel capacity of the main channel or increasing the probability of an unsecured communication. In this way, novel approximate closed-form solutions are derived for the SOP, which are corroborated by Monte Carlo simulations in different real scenarios such as clear ocean and coastal waters that are modeled by a determined chlorophyll-a concentration. The results show that the effect of scattering plays a crucial role in determining which kind of water is more secure in terms of SOP performance for different severity of pointing errors. PB Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers YR 2023 FD 2023-10 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36333 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36333 LA eng NO R. Boluda-Ruiz, P. Salcedo-Serrano, B. Castillo-Vázquez, A. García-Zambrana and J. M. Garrido-Balsells, "Impact of Scattering on Secrecy Outage Probability of Underwater Optical Wireless Links," in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 1362-1372, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1109/JOE.2023.3290368 NO This is the accepted manuscript (postprint) of the article published in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.The final published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2023.3290368. NO Spanish MICINN (Grant Number: PID2019-107792GB-I00)Plan Andaluz de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PAIDI) 2021 (Grant Number: P21_00390) DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 20 ene 2026