A high-resolution underwater acoustic communication propagation simulator with multi-path transient sea-surface interactions

A channel simulation has been developed to explore the fine time-scale Doppler and multi-path arrival-time delay spreading imparted to underwater communication signals by interaction with the transient ocean surface. The simulation provides a configurable ocean test-bed for the purpose of testing an...

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Main Authors: Caley, M., Duncan, Alec
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://www.acoustics.asn.au/conference_proceedings/AAS2015/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22849
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Duncan, Alec
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description A channel simulation has been developed to explore the fine time-scale Doppler and multi-path arrival-time delay spreading imparted to underwater communication signals by interaction with the transient ocean surface. The simulation provides a configurable ocean test-bed for the purpose of testing and developing acoustic signal data coding and decoding strategies that are more reliable and resistant to the natural reverberation, arrival delay distortion and Doppler distortion that are inherent in relatively shallow underwater signal propagation. The simulator operates by calculating the transmit impulse response for successive realisations of a three-dimensional ocean surface with configurable sea and swell parameters. A unique transmit impulse response history is calculated for each of the underlying flat-surface ray-paths, capturing time-varying fluctuations of the rough surface around the mean-plane response. The realism of the synthetic multi-path channel response history is then evaluated against an experimental channel.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-228492017-03-15T06:10:49Z A high-resolution underwater acoustic communication propagation simulator with multi-path transient sea-surface interactions Caley, M. Duncan, Alec A channel simulation has been developed to explore the fine time-scale Doppler and multi-path arrival-time delay spreading imparted to underwater communication signals by interaction with the transient ocean surface. The simulation provides a configurable ocean test-bed for the purpose of testing and developing acoustic signal data coding and decoding strategies that are more reliable and resistant to the natural reverberation, arrival delay distortion and Doppler distortion that are inherent in relatively shallow underwater signal propagation. The simulator operates by calculating the transmit impulse response for successive realisations of a three-dimensional ocean surface with configurable sea and swell parameters. A unique transmit impulse response history is calculated for each of the underlying flat-surface ray-paths, capturing time-varying fluctuations of the rough surface around the mean-plane response. The realism of the synthetic multi-path channel response history is then evaluated against an experimental channel. 2015 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22849 https://www.acoustics.asn.au/conference_proceedings/AAS2015/ restricted
spellingShingle Caley, M.
Duncan, Alec
A high-resolution underwater acoustic communication propagation simulator with multi-path transient sea-surface interactions
title A high-resolution underwater acoustic communication propagation simulator with multi-path transient sea-surface interactions
title_full A high-resolution underwater acoustic communication propagation simulator with multi-path transient sea-surface interactions
title_fullStr A high-resolution underwater acoustic communication propagation simulator with multi-path transient sea-surface interactions
title_full_unstemmed A high-resolution underwater acoustic communication propagation simulator with multi-path transient sea-surface interactions
title_short A high-resolution underwater acoustic communication propagation simulator with multi-path transient sea-surface interactions
title_sort high-resolution underwater acoustic communication propagation simulator with multi-path transient sea-surface interactions
url https://www.acoustics.asn.au/conference_proceedings/AAS2015/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22849