A study on weighting algorithm of multi-band transmission method using an estimated BER

Ji-Eun Shin; Hyun-Woo Jeong; Ji-Won Jung

doi:10.7776/ASK.2021.40.4.359

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A study on weighting algorithm of multi-band transmission method using an estimated BER 추정 BER을 이용한 다중 밴드 전송 기법의 가중치 알고리즘 연구

31 July 2021. pp. 359-369

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Abstract

In underwater communications, to compensate performance degradation induced from rapidly changing channel transfer characteristic, multi-band communication method which allocate the same data to different frequency bands is used. However, the multi-band configuration may have worse performance than the single-band one because performance degradation in a particular band affects the output from the entire bands. This problem can be solved through a receiving end that analyzes error rates of each band, sets threshold values and allocates lower weights to inferior bands. Therefore, this paper proposed a weighting algorithm based on estimated Bit Error Rate (BER) which analyzes reliability of received data based on the performance difference between demodulated and decoded data. Employing turbo codes with coding rate of 1/3, we evaluate the performance of the proposed weighted multi-band transmission model in real underwater environments based on optimal simulation parameters. Through the sea trial experiment, we confirmed error performance was improved by applying the proposed weighting algorithm.

Keywords

Underwater communication

Multi-band

Weighting

Estimation Bit Error Rate (BER)

Turbo codes

수중통신에서 빠른 채널 특성의 변화에 따른 성능 감소를 보상하기 위해, 동일한 데이터를 여러 개의 주파수 대역으로 전송하는 다중 밴드 기법을 적용한다. 그러나 다중 밴드의 적용 시 특정한 밴드의 성능 열화로 전체 성능이 감소하는 현상이 발생한다. 이를 극복하기 위해 각 밴드의 오류율을 분석하여 성능이 열악한 밴드에 낮은 가중치를 할당할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 추정 Bit Error Rate(BER)을 이용한 가중치 설정 방법을 제안한다. 추정 BER을 이용한 가중치 설정 방식은 복호 된 데이터와 복조 후 데이터의 성능 차이를 이용하여 수신된 데이터의 신뢰도를 측정하며, 측정된 값을 이용하여 각 밴드별 가중치를 설정해 복호기로 입력하면 성능이 향상된다. 본 논문에서는 터보 부호화 기법을 적용하였으며 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 최적의 가중치 값을 설정해 해상 실험을 한 결과 추정 BER을 이용한 가중치 설정을 통해 오류를 모두 정정할 수 있었다.

키워드

수중통신

다중 밴드

가중치

추정 Bit Error Rate (BER)

터보 부호

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Publisher :The Acoustical Society of Korea
Publisher(Ko) :한국음향학회
Journal Title :The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
Journal Title(Ko) :한국음향학회지
Volume : 40
No :4
Pages :359-369
Received Date : 2021-05-17
Accepted Date : 2021-06-11
DOI :https://doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2021.40.4.359

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of KoreaISSN:1225-4428(Print) 2287-3775(Online)한국음향학회

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