  In this work, we present an extensive analysis on the nature and performance
of Ince-Gauss beams, elliptical solutions of the paraxial wave equation that
have orbital angular momentum, as information carriers in turbulent atmosphere.
We perform numerical simulations of the propagation of these beams, and focus
on the effects that the order, degree and ellipticity parameters have on the
robustness of the beams. We find that the choice of basis in which a mode is
constructed does not greatly influence the mode performance and it is instead
strongly affected by the combination of order and degree values.
