• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.1818-1826
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• 2014

Time-variant sea surface causes a forward scattering and Doppler spreading in received signal on underwater acoustic communication system. This results in time-varying amplitude, frequency and phase variation of the received signal. In such a way the channel coherence bandwidth and fading feature also change with time. Consequently, the system performance is degraded and high-speed coherent digital communication is disrupted. In this paper, quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) performance is examined in two different sea surface conditions. The impact of sea surface scattering on performance is analyzed on basis of the channel impulse response and temporal coherence using linear frequency modulation (LFM) signal. The impulse response and the temporal coherence of the rough sea surface condition were more unstable and less than that of the calm sea surface condition, respectively. By relating these with time variant envelope, amplitude and phase of received signal, it was found that the bit error rate (BER) of QPSK are closely related to time variation of sea surface state.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.283-286
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• 2003

In this paper, we represent an implementation of burst QPSK receiver for underwater acoustic communication. Transmitter sends 5,000 symbols at 25kHz frequency with 200 kHz D/A sampling rate. The received signal is sampled at 100 kHz. Implemented receiver acquires the frame synchronization, coarse symbol timing estimate, and coarse phase offset estimate using 32 symbol length preamble. The estimated phase offset is used to initiate of 2nd order PLL. The transmission experiment results show that PLL is a mandatory to compensate Doppler shift due to the variation of tidal current.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.429-432
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• 2000

수중에서 AUV신호나 화상데이터의 정확한 고속 전송 등을 위해 수중 데이터 통신에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 수중 데이터 통신에서 잔향과 배경 잡음 등의 해양 환경 특성을 극복하는 것은 신뢰성 있는 통신 환경을 이룩하는데 중요하다. 특히 해면과 해저로 이루어진 천해 환경에서 해면과 해저 반사파에 의한 영향은 수중 데이터 통신의 성능을 좌우하는 중요한 요소 중의 하나로 알려져 있다. 이러한 환경적 영향을 최소화하여 높은 성능의 통신 환경을 제공하기 위해 다중경로의 영향을 적게 받는 변조방식을 선택하는 것이다. 수중 데이터 통신에서 일반적으로 사용되는 변조방식은 FSK, PSK, DPSK 등이 있다. 본 연구에서는 해면$\cdot$해저로 이루어진 해양 통신 채널에서 세 가지 변조방식의 성능을 수치모의실험을 통하여 비교$\cdot$분석하였다. 수치모의실험에서 해면 해저로 이루어진 천해의 해양 통신 채널은 음원 영상법을 적용하여 구성하였으며 각 변조방식의 성능은 BER(Bit Error Ratio)로 나타내었다.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.166-171
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• 2010

In this paper, the front-end of a digital receiver with a 25 kHz carrier frequency, 5 kHz symbol rate, and any excess-bandwidth is designed using two basic facts. The first is known as the uniform sampling theorem, which states that the sampled sequence might not suffer from aliasing even if its sampling rate is lower than the Nyquist sampling rate if the analog signal is a bandpass one. The other fact is that if the sampling rate is 4 times the center frequency of the sampled sequence, the front-end processing complexity can be dramatically reduced due to the half of the sampled sequence to be multiplied by zero in the demixing process. Furthermore, the designed front-end is simplified by introducing sub-filters and sub-sampling sequences. The designed front-end is composed of an A/D converter, which takes samples of a bandpass filtered signal at a 20 kHz rate; a serial-to-parallel converter, which converts a sampled bandpass sequence to 4 parallel sub-sample sequences; 4 sub-filter blocks, which act as a frequency shifter and lowpass filter for a complex sequence; 4 synchronized switches; and 2 adders. The designed front-end dramatically reduces the computational complexity by more than 50% for frequency shifting and lowpass filtering operations since a conventional front-end requires a frequency shifting and two lowpass filtering operations to get one lowpass complex sample, while the proposed front-end requires only four filtering operation to get four lowpass complex samples, which is equivalent to one filtering operation for one sample.