Very-High-Frequency Single-Input-Multiple-Output Acoustic Communication in Shallow Water

Very-high-frequency (VHF) underwater acoustic communication is a relatively unexplored terrain, but its importance is expected to increase with the growing demands for larger bandwidths and higher data rates. Knowledge of VHF propagation channels is a prerequisite to achieve high data throughput. In...

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Published in:IEEE journal of oceanic engineering 2019-10, Vol.44 (4), p.943-955
Main Authors: Rudander, Jacob, van Walree, Paul A., Husoy, Thor, Orten, Pal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic communication
Acoustic communication (telecommunication)
Acoustic noise
Beamforming
channel sounding
Channels
Communication
Delay
Direction of arrival
Doppler effect
Doppler sonar
Equalization
hydrophone arrays
Hydrophones
Impulse response
Shallow water
SIMO
SIMO communication
Sonar equipment
Time-frequency analysis
Underwater acoustics
Underwater communication
Very high frequencies
very high frequency
Wideband
wideband systems
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Summary:Very-high-frequency (VHF) underwater acoustic communication is a relatively unexplored terrain, but its importance is expected to increase with the growing demands for larger bandwidths and higher data rates. Knowledge of VHF propagation channels is a prerequisite to achieve high data throughput. In this paper, we present time-variant angle-resolved impulse responses for a set of 250-kHz shallow-water channels. The measurements were performed at high resolution using 64 hydrophones arranged in a line array. The measured channels are characterized by delay spreads of several milliseconds, Doppler spreads of tens of hertz, and angular spreads up to 30 °. The angular spread is not separable from the delay-Doppler spread, and the impulse response depends heavily on the direction of arrival. Different beamforming and multichannel equalizer strategies are compared for a single-input-multiple-output configuration. A method combining subarray beamforming and multichannel equalization delivers in both noise- and interference-limited scenarios, transferring data at 78.125 kb/s over ranges up to 770 m.
ISSN:0364-9059
1558-1691
DOI:10.1109/JOE.2018.2855298