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Analysis of Optimum Iterative Codes for Underwater Acoustic Communication based on Turbo Equalizer

수중 음향통신에 적합한 터보 등화기 기반의 최적의 반복 부호 기법 연구

  • Park, Tae-Doo (Dept. of Radio Science Engineering, Korea Maritime University) ;
  • Jung, Ji-Won (Dept. of Radio Science Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
  • Received : 2013.07.29
  • Accepted : 2013.10.07
  • Published : 2013.10.31
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Abstract

Underwater acoustic communication has multipath error because of reflection by sea-level and sea-bottom. The multipath of underwater channel causes signal distortion and error floor. In order to improve the performance, it is necessary to employ an iterative coding scheme. Among the iterative coding scheme, turbo codes, LDPC codes and convolutional code based on BCJR algorithm are dominant channel coding schemes in recent. Therefore this paper analyzed the performance of iterative codes based on turbo equalizer with the same coding rate and similar codeword length. The performances of three kinds of iterative codes were evaluated in the environment of underwater acoustic communication channel that are real data collected in Korean east sea. The distance of transmitter and receiver was 5Km and data rate was 1Kbps. As a result, convolutional code based on BCJR algorithm has better performance in underwater channel than turbo codes and LDPC codes.

수중에서의 통신은 해수면과 해저면 등에 의한 신호의 반사가 생겨 다중경로 현상이 발생한다. 이러한 다중경로의 영향으로 신호는 왜곡되고 원활한 수신을 방해하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 수신신호의 성능을 향상시키고자 수중통신에 적합한 반복부호를 설정하였다. 적용 가능한 반복부호로는 터보 부호와 LDPC 부호, BCJR 기반의 컨볼루션 부호가 있으며, 동일한 부호화율 및 비슷한 부호어 길이에서 터보 등 화기 기반의 성능을 분석하였다. 반복횟수를 5회로 고정하였고, 수중 채널 데이터는 실제 동해 바다에서 송수신 거리가 5Km로 실험을 하였다. 그리고 데이터 속도를 1Kbps에서 측정된 실제 데이터를 이용하였다. 성능 분석 결과, BCJR 기반의 컨볼루션 부호가 가장 적합함을 알 수 있었다.

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