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The uniqueness of oceanic impairments, such as absorption, scattering, oceanic turbulence, and air bubbles demands accurate statistical channel models based on empirical measurements for the development of UOWC systems adapted to different types of water and link conditions. Recently, generalized Gamma and a mixture of two generalized Gamma probability density functions (PDF) were proposed to describe the statistical behavior of small and large air bubbles, respectively, when considering several levels of particle-induced scattering. In this paper, we derive novel closed-form analytic expressions to compute the bit error rate (BER) and outage performance using both proposed PDFs for various scattering conditions. Furthermore, simple asymptotic expressions are obtained to determine the diversity order of each scenario. Monte Carlo simulation results verify the obtained theoretical expressions. Our results also reveal that UOWC systems present lower BER and outage performance under more turbid water cases with respect to the tap water case due to the higher diversity order and despite the significant increases in pathloss at short link distances. Particle-induced scattering provides an inherent mechanism of turbid waters to mitigate air bubble-induced fluctuations and light blockages.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24165232","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,13]],"date-time":"2024-08-13T09:08:10Z","timestamp":1723540090000},"page":"5232","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Performance Evaluation of UOWC Systems from an Empirical Channel Model Approach for Air Bubble-Induced Scattering"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7153-6801","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pedro","family":"Salcedo-Serrano","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Telecommunication Research Institute (TELMA), Universidad de M\u00e1laga, E-29010 M\u00e1laga, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1843-3467","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rub\u00e9n","family":"Boluda-Ruiz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Telecommunication Research Institute (TELMA), Universidad de M\u00e1laga, E-29010 M\u00e1laga, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3042-0076","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda","family":"Garrido-Balsells","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Telecommunication Research Institute (TELMA), Universidad de M\u00e1laga, E-29010 M\u00e1laga, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9031-4569","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Beatriz","family":"Castillo-V\u00e1zquez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Telecommunication Research Institute (TELMA), Universidad de M\u00e1laga, E-29010 M\u00e1laga, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7147-986X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Antonio","family":"Puerta-Notario","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Telecommunication Research Institute (TELMA), Universidad de M\u00e1laga, E-29010 M\u00e1laga, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5624-7932","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Antonio","family":"Garc\u00eda-Zambrana","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Telecommunication Research Institute (TELMA), Universidad de M\u00e1laga, E-29010 M\u00e1laga, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Underwater wireless communications: Current achievements and research challenges","volume":"41","author":"Stojanovic","year":"2006","journal-title":"IEEE Ocean. 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