Acoustic (Underwater) Communications

The need for underwater wireless communications exists in off-shore oil industry, environmental monitoring, speech transmission between divers, control of autonomous underwater vehicles, and mapping of the ocean floor for detection of objects and discovery of new resources. Wireless underwater communications can be established by transmission of acoustic waves. However, the communication channels have limited bandwidth, and often cause severe multipath dispersion and time-variability. Despite these limitations, research efforts of the 90's have culminated in the development of underwater acoustic modems that are capable of transmitting information at rates on the order of several kilobits per second systems over varying distances. The emerging scenario is that of an underwater communication network consisting of both stationary and mobile nodes. Current research is focusing on the design of efficient modulation and coding schemes, adaptive signal processing algorithms for equalization and diversity combining, multiple-access communication methods and network protocols suited for low bandwidth, long propagation delays and strict power requirements encountered in the underwater environment. Keywords: underwater communications; acoustic communications; bandwidt-efficient modulation; adaptive equalization; diversity combining; reduced-complexity receivers; phase-coherent detection; channel estimation; multipath propagation; multiuser detection; underwater networks

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