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http://dx.doi.org/10.5394/KINPR.2015.39.4.293

Experimental Performance Analysis of BCJR-Based Turbo Equalizer in Underwater Acoustic Communication  

Ahn, Tae-Seok (Department of radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
Jung, Ji-Won (Department of radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
Abstract
Underwater acoustic communications has been limited use for military purposes in the past. However, the fields of underwater applications expend to detection, submarine and communication in recent. The excessive multipath encountered in underwater acoustic communication channel is creating inter symbol interference, which is limiting factor to achieve a high data rate and bit error rate performance. To improve the performance of a received signal in underwater communication, many researchers have been studied for channel coding scheme with excellent performance at low SNR. In this paper, we applied BCJR decoder based ( 2,1,7 ) convolution codes and to compensate for the distorted data induced by the multipath, we applying the turbo equalization method. Through the underwater experiment on the Gyeungcheun lake located in Mungyeng city, we confirmed that turbo equalization structure of BCJR has better performance than hard decision and soft decision of Viterbi decoding. We also confirmed that the error rate of decoder input is less than error rate of $10^{-1}$, all the data is decoded. We achieved sucess rate of 83% through the experiment.
Keywords
Underwater communication; BCJR; Viterbi; Decision feedback equalizer; Multipath;
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