Efficient use of bandwidth for underwater acoustic communication.
In a recent shallow water experiment, acoustic communication transmissions were carried out over the 10 to 32 kHz band in ~100 m deep water over a 3 km range. A natural question is how best to utilize that bandwidth. In one multiband approach discussed previously, the band was divided into four smaller subbands that were processed independently using time reversal decision-feedback equalizers (TR-DFEs). This letter presents a complementary wideband approach using data from the same experiment achieving a data rate of up to 60 kbits/s with 32 quadrature amplitude modulation. These results suggest that a wideband approach can be beneficial in terms of spectral efficiency with modest computational complexity using a TR-DFE.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093-0238, USA. hcsong@ucsd.edu
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