Efficient On-Off Keying Underwater Acoustic Communication for Seafloor Observation Networks
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In the cableless seafloor observation networks (SONs), the links among network nodes rely on underwater acoustic communication (UAC). Due to the energy constraint and the high-reliability requirement of the cableless SONs, the noncoherent UAC has been a preferred choice, even though a noncoherent UAC scheme generally suffers from low spectral efficiency. In this paper, we propose a high-spectral-efficiency noncoherent UAC transmission scheme which is implemented as an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system adopting the on-off keying (OOK) modulation. To simultaneously achieve high performance at a low energy consumption, an irregular recursive convolutional code (IrCC) is employed and an accumulator (ACC) is introduced to achieve a modulation with memory at the transmitter side. The ACC enables a turbo iteration between the soft demapper called the ACC-OOK demapper and the soft decoder on the receiver side, and also reduces the decoding error floor. To account for the unknown signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), an iterative threshold estimation (ITE) algorithm is proposed to determine a proper decision threshold for the ACC-OOK demapper. The IrCC is designed to match the extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) curve of the ACC-OOK demapper, lowering the SNR threshold of the aforementioned turbo iteration. Simulations and experimental results verify the superiority of the proposed noncoherent UAC scheme over conventional ones.
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OpenAlex topics: Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems · Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks · Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
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Affiliations
Ocean Acoustic Technology Center, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center of Ocean Acoustic Equipment, Beijing 100190, China
State Key Laboratory of Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Key Laboratory of Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Acoustic Science and Technology Laboratory, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
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