• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.8
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• pp.454-461
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• 2005

Time spread due to the multipath in underwater acoustic channel, induces ISI (Inter-Symbol Interference) which degrades the performance of the underwater acoustic communication system. The passive phase conjugation (PPC) which improves the signal to multipath interference ratio (SMR) and therefore reduces the frequency selectivity. is a diversity communication technique giving a less ISI under multipath fading channel. Its frequency selectivity depends on the number of receiver array sensors and time varying source to receiver range. In this study, frequency selectivity of the PPC and its effects on bit error of underwater acoustic communication is analyzed by numerical simulation.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.173-180
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• 2017

Underwater communications are degraded as a result of inter symbol interference in multipath channels. Therefore, a channel coding scheme is essential for underwater communications. Packets consist of a PN sequence and a data field, and the uncoded PN sequence is used to estimate the frequency and phase offset using a Doppler and phase estimation algorithm. The estimated frequency and phase offset are fed to a coded data field to compensate for the Doppler and phase offset. The PN sequence is generally utilized to acquire the synchronization information, and the bit error rate of an uncoded PN sequence predicts the performance of the coded data field. To ensure few errors, we resort to powerful BCJR decoding algorithms of convolutional codes with rates of 1/2, 2/3, and 3/4. We use this powerful channel coding algorithm to present an efficient receiver structure based on the relation between the bit error of the uncoded PN sequence and coded data field in computer simulations and lake experiments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

In this paper, a water tank experiment using Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK) method for text transmission performance by water surface fluctuation is conducted. Water surface fluctuation and delay spread which affect the channel coherence bandwidth is a limiting factor in underwater acoustic communication. The amplitude fluctuation and delay spread the smooth surface and fluctuation surface, were identified. The effective delay spread of both cases are 5ms, 4ms corresponding to the coherence bandwidth of 200Hz, 250Hz, respectively. The bit error rate of BFSK modulated text transmission is about $10^{-4}$ in less than 200bps in smooth surface but less than 250bps in fluctuation surface. Therefore, this experiment shows that the water surface fluctuation is important factor determining the performance of the underwater acoustic transmission.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.154-162
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• 2008

Signals in an underwater channel get distorted by multipath propagation. In this paper, pre-coding method is suggested which helps comprehending the signals with minimum equalization. The signals are transformed based on the knowledge of the impulse response of the channel. Proposed pre-coding method is tested by simulations based on the ray theory and through water tank experiments. In weak multipath environment, in case of an SNR of about 20 dB, BER is $10^{-3}{\sim}10^{-4}$, while in strong multipath environment, similar BER is achieved with SNR of about 30 dB. In order for the pre-coding method to be used for underwater vehicles, channel prediction method utilizing the waveguide invariant is suggested and tested.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.181-187
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• 2010

The performance of underwater wireless communication system is influenced on channel characteristic. Especially, a delay spread cause by reverberation and multi-path happen the ISI (Inter Symbol Interference) and reduces the communication performance. In this paper, we study the application of high speed data transmission in underwater to use the OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technique for robust the reverberation and multi-path. we confirm the performance of communication in underwater to use the model for actually underwater channel simulation model. As a result, we acquired the BER of modulation techniques. The BER of single carrier is $2{\times}10^{-1}$ and BER of multi carrier is $8{\times}10^{-2}$ in 1000m.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1303-1306
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• 2009

수중에서의 통신은 해수면과 해저면 등에 의한 신호의 반사에 의해 발생한 다중경로 현상으로 신호가 왜곡되어 원활한 통신이 어렵다. 이에 본 논문에서는 다중경로에 의해 발생한 오류를 정정하고자 수중 채널 전달함수를 이용한 정정기법을 제안하였으며, 시뮬레이션 결과 제안한 기법을 적용하였을 경우 적용하지 않았을 때 보다 더욱 우수한 성능을 보이는 것을 확인 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.483-486
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• 2004

수중음향채널의 다중경로에 의한 수신신호의 시간확산(Time spread)은 ISI를 유발하여 수중통신시스템의 성능을 저하시킨다. 시간확산에 의한 ISI를 줄이고 전송율이 높은 코히어런트(coherent) 시스템을 적용하기 위해서는 다중경로 영향을 제거해야 한다. 본 연구에서 적용하는 수동 페이저 컨쥬게이션(passive phase conjugation) 기법은 시역전 기술로 프로브 신호에 의한 시역전을 수행하여 다중경로에 의한 ISI가 감소하여 비트 오류율이 적어진다. 아울러 수신신호의 처리가 간단하여 다중경로에 의한 시간확산에 비례하는 탭수의 증가로 수신신호 처리시간이 과다한 적응등화기 기법에 비해 실시간 시스템 구현에 유리한 기법이다. 수치모의 실험으로 제안하는 기법의 성능을 해석하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.373-383
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• 2012

The performance of underwater acoustic communication system is sensitive to the Doppler shift and ISI(Inter-Symbol Interference). Therefore, the simulation algorithm needs to consider time-spread due to multipath arrivals which cause the ISI, and time-varying Doppler shift along with moving source and receiver. For this purpose, VirTEX(Virtual Time series EXperiment) based on Ray model has been developed. In this paper, VirTEX is used to compare the characteristics of ocean waveguide from the experimental data and illustrate the performance. The CIR(Channel Impulse Response) that characterizes the multipath arrivals with representative time-spread due to multipath arrivals is compared between numerically simulated and experimental probe signal. Also, the communication performance analysis for BER(Bit Error Rate) is compared between numerically simulated and experimental data signal. As a result, VirTEX can be useful as a simulation tool for evaluating the performance of underwater acoustic communication system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.295-302
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• 2016

Underwater acoustic communication channel is often defined as a multipath fading channel since the multipath arrivals from various paths interfere with each other and cause frequency dependent constructive or destructive interference in received signals. Therefore signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of received signal fluctuates as a function of frequency. In addition, sea surface fluctuation induces frequency dependent time variant signal fading due to coherent component variation of surface bounce path. The frequency shift keying (FSK) system is known to be less sensitive and more robust under these interference and fading, and M-ary frequency shift keying (MFSK) system is adopted to increase a data rate. In this study, a bit error rate (BER) of 4 channels 4FSK system are examined in shallow sea multipath channel. Experimental results show that RS code reduces efficiently the BER of 4FSK system since frequency dependent time-varying fading is characterized to give burst errors. The BER of a different data rate or different source-to-receiver range depends on not only the channel coherent bandwidth but also frequency dependent multipath fading.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.2394-2402
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• 2017

The frequency selective fading by multipaths determines a performance of underwater acoustic communication system in shallow littoral ocean. In this study, a characteristics of underwater acoustic channel and performance of multi-carrier system is evaluated in littoral ocean with a 50m deep water, an effective wave height of 0.5m and sandy mud bottom near Busan city. A multipath delay spread and time and frequency domain are presented as a function of a transmitter-to-receiver range. A bit-error-rate of a 5 channel 4FSK(Frequency Shift Keying) with a transmission rate of 1kbps, is examined and RS(Reed-Solomon) code is also adopted to remove a burst error due to time domain fading. A number of multipath are less than four and a bit-error-rate is decreased as an increase of a transmitter-to-receiver range which gives a congestion of multi-paths resulting in a decrease of time and frequency domain fading. The measured bit-error-rate is about 10-4 at greater than 600m of transmitter-to-receiver range.