• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.2
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• pp.199-208
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• 2014

Code division multiple access (CDMA) is one of the promising medium access control (MAC) schemes for underwater acoustic sensor networks because of its robustness against frequency-selective fading and high frequency-reuse efficiency. As a way of performance evaluation, sea or lake experiment has been employed along with computer simulation.. In this study, we design the underwater CDMA forward-link transceiver and evaluate the feasibility aginst harsh underwater acoustic channel in water-tank first. Then, based on the water-tank experiment results, we improved the transceiver and showed the improvements in a lake experiment. A pseudo random noise code acquisition process is added for phase error correction before decoding the user data by means of a Walsh code in the receiver. Interleaving and convolutional channel coding scheme are also used for performance improvement. Experimental results show that the multiplexed data is recovered by means of demultiplexing at receivers with error-free in case of two users while with less than 15% bit error rate in case of three and four users.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.606-613
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• 2002

In this paper we applied a transmit beamforming technique to the underwater acoustic communication system for high rate data transmission. A prototype transmit system was designed and implemented with the general purpose DSP processor and multiple digital-to-analog converters. The performances of the implemented system were evaluated by the experiment in water tank. In order to simplify the procedure the channel coding and equalizer were omitted. And the simplest OOK (On-Off Keying) technique in digital communication methods was applied. The experimental result shows that the transmission data rate is higher about 3 times in the case of 5 hydrophone transmitting may than 1 hydrophone transmitter at bit error rate 10/sup -2/. We verified that the maximum data rate was 400 bps for speech signal transmission in water tank.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.432-440
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• 2009

Recently, the necessity of underwater acoustic communication and demand for transmitting and receiving various data such as voice or high resolution image data are increasing as well. The performance of underwater acoustic communication system is influenced by underwater channel characteristic. Especially, a delay spread caused by reverberation and multi-path induces the ISI (Inter-Symbol-Interference) and reduces the communication performance. In this paper, we study the OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technique for robust the delay spread in underwater channel. We also use the clipping method to overcome the performance degradation in high PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio). We confirm the performances of underwater communication system by the underwater channel model simulation model and experiment in small water tank. As a result, the multi-carrier modulation with clipping method presented low BER and the previous single carrier modulation had high BER.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.95-104
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• 1997

This paper deals with an analysis of multipath which affect a transmission performance in underwater acoustic channel. For the test of autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV), underwater acoustic channel with multipath structure is introduced to mathmatical modelling for a basin environment. In this paper, SMR(Signal to Multipath Ratio) which is defined as a parameter of mulipath's effect is presented as a mathmatical equation, and the equation or SMR is simulated by MATLAB program.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.153-156
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• 2007

최근 대두되고 있는 무선 센서네트워크는 지상뿐만 아니라 해양에서도 필요성이 점차 커지고 있다. 해양에서의 무선통신을 하기 위해서는 지상에서 사용하는 RF와 같이 높은 주파수를 사용할 수 없기 때문에 낮은 주파수 대역을 사용하여야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 낮은 주파수 대역을 사용하는 초음파를 센서노드에 장착하고 이들 센서 노드들의 통신 수행을 위하여 수중통신모듈을 설계 및 구현하였다. 그리고 실험을 통하여 텍스트 기반의 통신이 성공하였음을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 논문에서 구현된 수중통신 모듈은 추후 해양 센서네트워크 서비스를 위한 해양 센서노드 제작에 기반이 될 것이다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.169-180
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• 2023

The performance of underwater acoustic communication is greatly affected by multipath propagation and Doppler spread. This paper proposes a new communication technique, the Triangle Spread Carrier (TSC) technique, by modifying the existing Sweep Spread Carrier (SSC) technique that is strong in a multipath propagation environment. The proposed TSC technique is a form in which the up-chirp and down-chirp signals have repeated carriers, and each correlation function characteristic is used to estimate and correct the Doppler shift frequency of the receiving signal. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed TSC technique, we present the results of simulations using underwater channel simulators and sea trial conducted in the East Sea. When demodulating using only the estimated Doppler shift frequency as a result of the sea trial, the uncoded bit error rate was up to 0.194, but when the proposed method was applied, the uncoded bit error rate was reduced to 0.001.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.150-158
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• 2022

This paper presents the results of a sea trial for very long range spread spectrum underwater acoustic communication conducted in the East Sea in September 2021. Signals were collected through 8 vertical sensors, and the range between the transmitter and receiver was about 160 km. 30 bps Multi-Code Spread Spectrum (MCSS) method and 100 bps Chirp Spread Spectrum method were used for the transmitting signal generation. The results show that when the channel coding technique was not used in a single channel, the uncoded bit error rate was high, but when the Equal Gain Combining (EGC) diversity technique was used after frame synchronization in each receiving channel, the uncoded bit error rate was reduced to 0.1 or less.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.37-42
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• 2017

In this paper, we study on symbol error rate(SER) performance of frequency domain decision feedback equalization for modelled underwater channel. Underwater channel is generated by Bellhop model. Simulation results show that proposed method is efficient for underwater acoustic communication.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.11
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• pp.110-117
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• 2012

As the demand for underwater systems providing pollution monitoring, marine ecosystem observation, surveillance monitoring is increased, acoustic modem for short-range underwater communication is spotlighted as one of significant research topics. Typically, in shallow water, it is so hard to analyze acoustic wave which undergoes spreading, absorption, reflection and scattering through transmission that there are limited advanced results. Furthermore, in order for the modem to be loaded in a fixed node or a moving vehicle in shallow water, its size should be small enough. In this paper, we address underwater acoustic channel model and design and implement an efficient micro acoustic modem which is adequate for short-range underwater communication. The developed modem is verified in a lake by varying working range and data rate up to 500 meters and 2 kbps, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.565-568
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• 2008

In this paper, we present bit error rate(BER) performance of an adaptive decision feedback equalizer(DFE) with experimental data. The experiment was performed at the shore of Geoje in November 2007. The BER performance of the adaptive DFE whose tap weight is updated by RLS is described with change of feedforward tap number, feedback tap number, traning seqence length and delay, which shows that the uncoded average BER is $4{\times}10^{-2}\;and\;1.5{\times}10^{-2}$ with transmission range 9.7km and 4km, respectively.