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Vol. 189, Issue 6, June 2015, pp. 89-96

 

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A Perspective for Time-Varying Channel Compensation
with Model-Based Adaptive Passive Time-Reversal
 

Lussac P. MAIA, António SILVA, Sérgio M. JESUS

LARSys, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Tel.: +351 289800949

E-mail: a49170@ualg.pt, asilva@ualg.pt, sjesus@ualg.pt

 

Received: 4 June 2015 /Accepted: 26 June 2015 /Published: 30 June 2015

Digital Sensors and Sensor Sysstems

 

Abstract: Underwater communications mainly rely on acoustic propagation which is strongly affected by frequency-dependent attenuation, shallow water multipath propagation and significant Doppler spread/shift induced by source-receiver-surface motion. Time-reversal based techniques offer a low complexity solution to decrease interferences caused by multipath, but a complete equalization cannot be reached (it saturates when maximize signal to noise ratio) and these techniques in conventional form are quite sensible to channel variations along the transmission. Acoustic propagation modeling in high frequency regime can yield physical-based information that is potentially useful to channel compensation methods as the passive time-reversal (pTR), which is often employed in Digital Acoustic Underwater Communications (DAUC) systems because of its low computational cost. Aiming to overcome the difficulties of pTR to solve time-variations in underwater channels, it is intended to insert physical knowledge from acoustic propagation modeling in the pTR filtering. Investigation is being done by the authors about the influence of channel physical parameters on propagation of coherent acoustic signals transmitted through shallow water waveguides and received in a vertical line array of sensors. Time-variant approach is used, as required to model high frequency acoustic propagation on realistic scenarios, and applied to a DAUC simulator containing an adaptive passive time-reversal receiver (ApTR). The understanding about the effects of changes in physical features of the channel over the propagation can lead to design ApTR filters which could help to improve the communications system performance. This work presents a short extension and review of the paper 12, which tested Doppler distortion induced by source-surface motion and ApTR compensation for a DAUC system on a simulated time-variant channel, in the scope of model-based equalization. Environmental focusing approach in high frequency underwater acoustics is intended to be explored in future, based on the idea that a set of oceanic acoustic physical parameters – which are generally estimated in well-known low frequency matched field processing problems like geoacoustic assessment, ocean tomography and source localization – could be conveniently used on adaptive filters for channel compensation in DAUC systems.

 

Keywords: Digital acoustic underwater communications, Passive time reversal, Coherent signaling, Environmental-Based channel compensation, Matched field processing, Time-Variant channel modelling.

 

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