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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2015.19.10.2247

Multipath Fading Channel Characterization and Performances of Forward Error Correction Codes in Very Shallow Water  

Bae, Minja (Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Xue, Dandan (Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Park, Jihyun (Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Yoon, Jong Rak (Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.19, no.10, 2015 , pp. 2247-2255 More about this Journal
Abstract
In very shallow water acoustic communication channel, underwater acoustic (UWA) communication signal is observed as frequency selective fading signal due to time-varying multipath. This induces a time and frequency dependent inter-symbol-interference (ISI) and degrades the UWA system performance. There is no study about how the performances of the error correction codes are related to a multipath fading statistics in very shallow water. In this study, the characteristics of very shallow water multipath fading channel is analyzed and the performances of two different forward error correction (FEC) codes are compared. The convolution code (CC) and Reed-Solomon (RS) code are adopted. Sea experimental results show that RS code is better choice than CC in frequency selective channel with fading.
Keywords
Multipath channel; Fading; Underwater acoustic communication; Forward error correction code; Frequency selectivity; Temporal coherence;
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