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Analysis of passive time-reversal communication performance in shallow water with underwater sound channel

음향채널이 존재하는 천해에서의 수동 시역전 통신 성능 분석

  • 최강훈 (한양대학교 해양융합공학과) ;
  • 김선효 (한양대학교 해양융합공학과) ;
  • 최지웅 (한양대학교 해양융합공학과) ;
  • 김현수 (한양대학교 해양융합공학과) ;
  • 김병남 (한국해양과학기술원)
  • Received : 2017.11.27
  • Accepted : 2018.01.30
  • Published : 2018.01.31
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Abstract

A passive time-reversal technique can improve error performance of the underwater communication system by reducing influence of inter-symbol interferences, which is caused by a multipath channel response. The passive time-reversal communication system equipped with numerous receivers generally can obtain superior error performance since larger diversity gain can be obtained as the number of available received signal increased. In this paper, we analyze the optimal number and combination of receivers that can approximately achieve the best error performance when using the limited number of receivers. For this analysis, we use communication data collected during SAVEX15 (Shallow-water Acoustic Variability Experiment 2015) carried out in the south-western part of Jeju Island from May 14 to May 28, 2015. Analysis results show that there are depths of energy concentration due to the channel characteristics in which the underwater sound channel are present, and the passive time-reversal technique using the limited number of the receivers can derive near-optimal communication performance if the receivers for time-reversal processing are located at the depths where energy is concentrated.

수동 시역전 기법은 시공간적인 집속효과를 통해 다중경로 채널응답에 의한 인접 심볼간 간섭의 영향을 줄임으로써 수중통신 시스템의 오류 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법이다. 이러한 수동 시역전 기법은 일반적으로 시역전 결합에 사용되는 수신신호가 많을수록 큰 공간 다이버시티 이득을 얻기 때문에 많은 수의 수신기를 사용할 때 우수한 통신 성능을 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제한된 개수의 수신기를 사용하더라도 많은 수의 수신기를 사용할 때와 근접한 통신 성능을 얻을 수 있는 수신기의 개수와 조합에 대해 분석한다. 분석을 위해 2015년 5월에 제주 남서쪽 해역에서 수행된 SAVEX15(Shallow-water Acoustic Variability Experiment 2015) 실험 데이터를 활용한다. 음향채널이 존재하는 채널 특성 때문에 에너지가 집중되는 수심이 존재하였고 에너지가 집중되는 수심에 존재하는 수신기를 포함하여 수동 시역전 결합을 할 때, 일부의 수신기만을 사용하여 최적에 가까운 통신 성능을 도출할 수 있음을 보인다.

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