An analysis of MIMO-OFDM for shallow water acoustic communications

Author

Bouvet, Pierre-Jean ; Loussert, Alain

Author_Institution

Underwater Acoust. Lab., ISEN Brest, Brest, France

fYear

2011

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) techniques are currently extensively considered in underwater acoustic (UWA) communications to overcome the bandwidth limitation of under-sea channel. Associated with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation, MIMO techniques provide substantial gain in spectral efficiency and fair robustness against frequency fading while keeping simple equalizer structure. In this paper, we study accurately the gain provided by MIMO-OFDM paradigm over Shallow Water Acoustic (SWA) channel by taking into account channel characteristics as well as OFDM parameters.

Keywords

MIMO communication; OFDM modulation; equalisers; underwater acoustic communication; MIMO-OFDM; OFDM modulation; OFDM parameter; SWA channel; bandwidth limitation; channel characteristics; equalizer structure; frequency fading; multiinput multioutput technique; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; shallow water acoustic communication; spectral efficiency; under-sea channel; underwater acoustic communication; Channel capacity; Channel estimation; MIMO; OFDM; Signal to noise ratio; Underwater acoustics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2011

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1427-6

Type

conf

Filename

6107068