Multicarrier communication over underwater acoustic channels with nonuniform Doppler shifts
Multicarrier communication over underwater acoustic channels with nonuniform Doppler shifts
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2008-04
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Li, Baosheng
Zhou, Shengli
Stojanovic, Milica
Freitag, Lee E.
Willett, Peter
Zhou, Shengli
Stojanovic, Milica
Freitag, Lee E.
Willett, Peter
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10.1109/JOE.2008.920471
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Underwater acoustic communication
Multicarrier modulation
OFDM
Wideband channels
Multicarrier modulation
OFDM
Wideband channels
Abstract
Underwater acoustic (UWA) channels are wideband in nature due to the small ratio of the carrier frequency to the signal bandwidth, which introduces frequency-dependent Doppler shifts. In this paper, we treat the channel as having a common Doppler scaling factor on all propagation paths, and propose a two-step approach to mitigating the Doppler effect: 1) nonuniform Doppler compensation via resampling that converts a "wideband" problem into a "narrowband" problem and 2) high-resolution uniform compensation of the residual Doppler. We focus on zero-padded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to minimize the transmission power. Null subcarriers are used to facilitate Doppler compensation, and pilot subcarriers are used for channel estimation. The receiver is based on block-by-block processing, and does not rely on channel dependence across OFDM blocks; thus, it is suitable for fast-varying UWA channels. The data from two shallow-water experiments near Woods Hole, MA, are used to demonstrate the receiver performance. Excellent performance results are obtained even when the transmitter and the receiver are moving at a relative speed of up to 10 kn, at which the Doppler shifts are greater than the OFDM subcarrier spacing. These results suggest that OFDM is a viable option for high-rate communications over wideband UWA channels with nonuniform Doppler shifts.
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IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 33 (2008): 198-209