Multi-channel iterative FDE for single carrier block transmission over underwater acoustic channels

Chengbing He, Siyu Huo, Qunfei Zhang, Han Wang, Jianguo Huang

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Abstract

Recently, single carrier block transmission (SCBT) has received much attention in high-rate phase-coherent underwater acoustic communication. However, minimum-mean-square-error (MMSE) linear FDE may suffer performance loss in the severely time dispersive underwater acoustic channel. To combat the channel distortion, a novel multi-channel receiver with maximum ratio combining and a low complex T/4 fractional iterative frequency domain equalization (FDE) is investigated to improve diversity gain and the bit error rate (BER) performance. The proposed method has been verified by the real data from a lake underwater acoustic communication test in November 2011. At 1.8 km, the useful data rates are around 1500 and 3000 bits/ s for BPSK and QPSK respectively. The results show the improvements of system performance. Compared with MMSE FDE system, the output SNR improvement is 6.9 dB, and the BER is from 10-3 to no error bits for BPSK. The output SNR improvement is 5.3 dB, and the BER is from 1.91×10-2 to 2.2×10-4 for QPSK.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7224706
Pages (from-to)55-61
Number of pages7
JournalChina Communications
Volume12
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2015

Keywords

  • iterative processing
  • multi-channel frequency domain equalization
  • single carrier
  • underwater acoustic communication

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