Spatial diversity processing for underwater acoustic telemetry

1991 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Catipovic ◽  
L.E. Freitag
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1509
Author(s):  
Anbang Zhao ◽  
Caigao Zeng ◽  
Juan Hui ◽  
Keren Wang ◽  
Kaiyu Tang

Time reversal (TR) can achieve temporal and spatial focusing by exploiting spatial diversity in complex underwater environments with significant multipath. This property makes TR useful for underwater acoustic (UWA) communications. Conventional TR is realized by performing equal gain combining (EGC) on the single element TR output signals of each element of the vertical receive array (VRA). However, in the actual environment, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the received noise power of each element are different, which leads to the reduction of the focusing gain. This paper proposes a time reversal maximum ratio combining (TR-MRC) method to process the received signals of the VRA, so that a higher output SNR can be obtained. The theoretical derivation of the TR-MRC weight coefficients indicates that the weight coefficients are only related to the input noise power of each element, and are not affected by the multipath structure. The correctness of the derivation is demonstrated with the experimental data of the long-range UWA communications conducted in the South China Sea. In addition, the experimental results illustrate that compared to the conventional TR, TR-MRC can provide better performance in terms of output SNR and bit error rate (BER) in UWA communications.


Author(s):  
Prasad Anjangi ◽  
Mandar Chitre ◽  
Manu Ignatius ◽  
Chinmay Pendharkar

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.B. Kilfoyle ◽  
A.B. Baggeroer

Author(s):  
R.A. Iltis ◽  
R. Kastner ◽  
Hua Lee ◽  
D. Doonan ◽  
Tricia Fu ◽  
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