Impact of ocean variability on coherent underwater acoustic communications during the Kauai experiment (KauaiEx)

During the July 2003 acoustic communications experiment conducted in 100 m deep water off the western side of Kauai, Hawaii, a 10 s binary phase shift keying signal with a symbol rate of 4 kilosymbol ∕ s was transmitted every 30 min for 27 h from a bottom moored source at 12 kHz center frequency to...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2008-02, Vol.123 (2), p.856-865
Hauptverfasser: Song, Aijun, Badiey, Mohsen, Song, H. C., Hodgkiss, William S., Porter, Michael B.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:During the July 2003 acoustic communications experiment conducted in 100 m deep water off the western side of Kauai, Hawaii, a 10 s binary phase shift keying signal with a symbol rate of 4 kilosymbol ∕ s was transmitted every 30 min for 27 h from a bottom moored source at 12 kHz center frequency to a 16 element vertical array spanning the water column at about 3 km range. The communications signals are demodulated by time reversal multichannel combining followed by a single channel decision feedback equalizer using two subsets of array elements whose channel characteristics appear distinct: (1) top 10 and (2) bottom 4 elements. Due to rapid channel variations, continuous channel updates along with Doppler tracking are required prior to time reversal combining. This is especially true for the top 10 elements where the received acoustic field involves significant interaction with the dynamic ocean surface. The resulting communications performance in terms of output signal-to-noise ratio exhibits significant change over the 27 h transmission duration. This is particularly evident as the water column changes from well-mixed to a downward refracting environment.
ISSN:0001-4966
1520-8524
DOI:10.1121/1.2828055