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Performance of Underwater Communication in Low Salinity Layer at the Western Sea of Jeju  

Bok, Tae-Hoon (Jeju National University)
Kim, Ju-Ho (Jeju National University)
Lee, Chong-Hyun (Jeju National University)
Bae, Jin-Ho (Jeju National University)
Paeng, Dong-Guk (Jeju National University)
Pang, Ig-Chan (Jeju National University)
Lee, Jong-Kil (Andong National University)
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Abstract
The sound speed of seawater can be calculated by the empirical formula as a function of temperature, salinity and pressure. It is little affected by salinity because the average salinity is 34 psu and varies within a few psu seasonally and spatially in the ocean. Recently, low-salinity water of 24 psu flows into the western sea area of Jeju Island due to the flood of the Yangtze River in China during summer, affecting sound speed profile. In this paper, it was analyzed how environmental changes affected to the underwater communication - the sound speed of low-salinity water was calculated, and the communication channel was estimated by the simulated acoustic rays while the transmitting and receiving depth and the range were varied with and without the low-salinity layer. And The BER (Bit error rate) was calculated by BPSK(Binary phase shift key) modulation and the effects of the low-salinity water on the BER was investigated. The sound speed profile was changed to have positive slope by the low-salinity layer at the sub-surface up to 20 m of depth, forming acoustic wave propagation channel at the sub-surface resulting in the decrease of most of the BER Consequently, this paper suggests that it is important to consider changes of the ocean environment for correctly analyzing the underwater communication and the detection capability.
Keywords
저염수;수중통신;비트오류율;수중음파전달;
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