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On the Performance Analysis of Coherent Bandwidth in Underwater Channel Environments Using Beamforming Technologies Based on the Use of Measurement Data

측정 데이터를 이용한 빔형성기의 적용에 의한 수중 채널 환경에서의 상관 대역폭 분석

  • Received : 2014.07.19
  • Accepted : 2014.11.02
  • Published : 2014.10.30
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Abstract

The OFDM system have been widely studied for the purpose of increasing data rate with more reliable communications in underwater channel environments. And it is possible only when the sub-carrier's bandwidth is smaller than the coherence bandwidth of channel in the underwater OFDM communication system. However, the size of the FFT for the OFDM system will be increased because the coherence bandwidth is as small as several tens of Hz in real underwater channel environments. Also, It is necessary to add a CP having a length longer than the rms delay spread of a channel. So the complexity of the system is increased and the data efficiency is reduced. Therefore, in this paper, we have studied the increase of the coherence bandwidth by adapting the beamforming technologies. To do this, we have collected data from real underwater channel environments and analyzed the coherence bandwidth when adapting the beamforming technologies. Analyzing the experimental data show that the coherence bandwidth by the beamforming technologies in underwater channel environments was greatly increased compared to that of a single sensor.

수중 채널 환경에서 고속의 데이터를 신뢰성 있게 전송하기 위한 OFDM 시스템에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 또한, OFDM 통신 시스템에서는 각 부반송파의 대역폭을 채널의 상관 대역폭 보다 작게 설정해야지만 수중 채널 환경에 OFDM 통신의 적용에 의한 성능 향상을 기대할 수 있다. 하지만 실제의 수중 채널 환경에서의 상관 대역폭은 수십 Hz로 매우 작기 때문에, 수중 OFDM 통신 시스템 구성 시에 OFDM을 위한 FFT의 크기가 증가하고, 각 부반송파에 실효 지연 확산 이상의 길이를 갖는 주기적 전치 부호를 추가해야하기 때문에 시스템의 복잡도가 증가하고 데이터의 효율이 저하된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 수중 채널 환경에서 빔형성기의 적용에 의한 상관 대역폭의 증가를 연구하였다. 이를 위해 실제의 수중 채널 환경에서 측정을 수행하고, 측정 데이터를 분석해 봄으로써 수중 채널 환경에서 빔형성기의 적용에 의한 상관 대역폭의 증가 정도를 분석하였다. 분석 결과 수중 채널 환경에 빔형성기를 적용하는 경우 상관대역폭이 단일 센서를 사용하는 경우에 비해 크게 증가함을 알 수 있었다.

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