{"title":"A new scheme of low frequency long range underwater acoustic communication with high spectral efficiency","authors":"Jiati Li , Bin Wang , Yiwang Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.apacoust.2025.110668","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents an underwater acoustic communication scheme that combines the modal dispersion compensation with the channel adaptive equalization to address the challenge of low spectral efficiency in the low-frequency long-range underwater communication in shallow water. We designed both the transmitter and receiver to improve the communication efficiency by eliminating the spread spectrum in the transmitted signal. At the receiver, the de-dispersion transform compensated for the preamble, enhancing the frame synchronization accuracy. The proposed dispersion compensation method addressed the non-instantaneous pulses, eliminating the nonlinear phase distortion in the received signal. The adaptive equalization further compensated for the frequency-selective fading caused by multipath propagation. The simulation and experimental results demonstrated that this scheme significantly enhanced the spectral efficiency, particularly in the channels with severe dispersion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55506,"journal":{"name":"Applied Acoustics","volume":"235 ","pages":"Article 110668"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Applied Acoustics","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003682X25001409","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ACOUSTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents an underwater acoustic communication scheme that combines the modal dispersion compensation with the channel adaptive equalization to address the challenge of low spectral efficiency in the low-frequency long-range underwater communication in shallow water. We designed both the transmitter and receiver to improve the communication efficiency by eliminating the spread spectrum in the transmitted signal. At the receiver, the de-dispersion transform compensated for the preamble, enhancing the frame synchronization accuracy. The proposed dispersion compensation method addressed the non-instantaneous pulses, eliminating the nonlinear phase distortion in the received signal. The adaptive equalization further compensated for the frequency-selective fading caused by multipath propagation. The simulation and experimental results demonstrated that this scheme significantly enhanced the spectral efficiency, particularly in the channels with severe dispersion.
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