Digital Underwater Acoustic Communications

Digital Underwater Acoustic Communications focuses on describing the differences between underwater acoustic communication channels and radio channels, discusses loss of transmitted sound in underwater acoustic channels, describes digital underwater acoustic communication signal processing, and provides a comprehensive reference to digital underwater acoustic communication equipment. This book is designed to serve as a reference for postgraduate students and practicing engineers involved in the design and analysis of underwater acoustic communications systems as well as for engineers involved in underwater acoustic engineering. Introduces the basics of underwater acoustics, along with the advanced functionalities needed to achieve reliable communications in underwater environment Identifies challenges in underwater acoustic channels relative to radio channels, underwater acoustic propagation, and solutions Shows how multi-path structures can be thought of as time diversity signals Presents a new, robust signal processing system, and an advanced FH-SS system for multimedia underwater acoustic communications with moderate communication ranges (above 20km) and rates (above 600bps) Describes the APNFM system for underwater acoustic communication equipment (including both civil and military applications), to be employed in active sonar to improve its performance.

Front Cover; DIGITAL UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; DIGITAL UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; Foreword; 1 -- Introduction; 1.1 OVERVIEW OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT; 1.2 PECULIARITIES OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION CHANNELS RELATIVE TO RADIO COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; 1.3 EXPLORATIONS ESTABLISHING AN INNOVATIVE DIGITAL UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM; 1.3.1 Digital Underwater Acoustic Communications; 1.3.2 Main Civil Digital Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems at Present.

1.3.3 Explorations Establishing an Innovative Digital Underwater Acoustic Communication System1.4 COMMUNICATION SONAR EQUATION; References; 2 -- Underwater Acoustic Communication Channels; 2.1 THEORETICAL METHODS OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC FIELDS; 2.1.1 Wave Equation and Conditions for Determining Solution [1]; 2.1.2 Theory of Ray Acoustics; 2.1.2.1 Fundamental Equations of Ray Acoustics; 2.1.2.2 Ray Equation in Layered Media; 2.1.2.3 Ray Diagrams in Layered Media; 2.2 SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS IN THE SEA; 2.2.1 Sound Fields in Layered Inhomogeneous Media.

2.2.1.1 Sound Anti-Channeling Propagations [7]2.2.1.2 Sound …