High-speed underwater acoustic communication based on OFDM

Huang Jianguo, Sun Jing, He Chengbing, Shen Xiaohong, Zhang Qunfei

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Abstract

Due to multipath propagation and frequency selective fading, there are many obstacles for reliable and high data rate underwater acoustic (UWA) communication. OFDM is an attractive technique beginning used in UWA communication with three obvious advantages: good performance against multipath interference, ability to combat the frequency selective fading and the high frequency band efficiency. Recently, the researches of Refs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 focus on short-range UWA communication. In this paper, we pay attention to medium-range (10 km) UWA communication based on OFDM. An OFDM system is designed and realized. Several important problems are described in which the characteristics of UWA channel is analyzed, Doppler frequency shift is estimated by using cyclic prefix and compensated by resampling the received signal. Experiments in a lake were conducted and its performance is investigated. Experimental results show that the data rate reach 9kbps and 2.8kbps at a distance of 5km and 10km respectively with the bit error rate (BER) below 10-4.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMAPE2005
Subtitle of host publicationIEEE 2005 International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications, Proceedings
Pages1135-1138
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2005
EventMAPE2005: IEEE 2005 International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications - Beijing, China
Duration: 8 Aug 200512 Aug 2005

Publication series

NameMAPE2005: IEEE 2005 International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications, Proceedings
Volume2

Conference

ConferenceMAPE2005: IEEE 2005 International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period8/08/0512/08/05

Keywords

  • Doppler compensation
  • Lake experiments
  • OFDM
  • Underwater acoustic communication

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