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Effect of frequency dependent multipath fading on non-coherent underwater communication system

주파수 종속 다중경로 페이딩이 비코히어런트 수중통신시스템에 미치는 영향

Jongjoo Kim1
,
Jihyun Park1
,
Minja Bae1
,
Kyu-Chil Park1
,
Jong Rak Yoon1*
김 종주1
,
박 지현1
,
배 민자1
,
박 규칠1
,
윤 종락1*
1Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Pukyong National University
*교신저자. *Corresponding Author. 
31 July 2016. pp. 295-302
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Abstract

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.

Keywords
Underwater acoustic communication
Multipath fading channel
Frequency shift keying
Inter-symbol interference
Reed-Solomon code

수중음향 채널은 다양한 경로들이 상호 간섭하여 주파수에 따른 보강 또는 상쇄 간섭을 보이는 다중경로 페이딩 채널로 정의된다. 따라서 수신신호의 신호 대 잡음비는 주파수에 따라 변화한다. 아울러 해면변동은 해면 반사경로의 코히어런트 성분의 주파수에 따른 시변 페이딩을 야기한다. 주파수 편이 키잉 시스템은 이러한 간섭과 페이딩에 덜 민감하여 강인한 시스템으로 알려져 있으며 전송률을 높이기 위해 다진 주파수 편이 키잉 시스템으로 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 4 채널 4진 주파수 편이 키잉 시스템의 비트오류율을 천해 다중경로 채널에서 실험하였다. 실험 결과 주파수 종속 시변 수중 음향 다중경로 페이딩은 연집오류를 발생시키는 특성을 보여 리드 솔로몬 코드가 4진 주파수 편이 키잉 시스템의 비트오류율을 효과적으로 경감시키는지를 보였다. 따라서 데이터 전송율 혹은 송수신기 거리에 따른 비트 오류율은 채널의 대역폭뿐만 아니라 주파수 종속 다중 경로 페이딩에 좌우됨을 보인다.

키워드
수중음향통신
다중경로 페이딩 채널
주파수 편이 키잉
심벌간 간섭
리드 솔로몬 코드
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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 : 35
  • No :4
  • Pages :295-302
  • Received Date : 2016-04-29
  • Revised Date : 2016-05-23
  • Accepted Date : 2016-06-14
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2016.35.4.295
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