Doppler estimating and compensating method based on phase

According to the Doppler sensitive of the phase coded pulse compression signal, a Doppler estimating and compensating method based on phase is put forward to restrain the Doppler sidelobes, raise the signal-to-noise ratio and improve measuring resolution. The compensation method is used to decompose the echo to amplitude and phase, and then compose the new compensated echo by the amplitude and the nonlinear component of the phase. Furthermore the linear component of the phase can be used to estimate the Doppler frequency shift. The computer simulation and the real data processing show that the method has accurately estimated the Doppler frequency shift, successfully restrained the energy leakage on spectrum, greatly increased the echo signal-to-noise ratio and improved the detection performance of the radio system in both time domain and frequency domain.

Frequency Diversity for OFDM Mobile Communication via Underwater Acoustic Channels

The major constraint on the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing （OFDM） based underwater acoustic （UWA） communication is to keep subcarriers orthogonal. In this paper, Doppler estimation and the respective compensation technique along with various diversity techniques were deliberated for OFDM-based systems best suited for underwater wireless information exchange. In practice, for mobile communication, adjustment and tuning of transducers in order to get spatial diversity is extremely difficult. Considering the relatively low coherence bandwidth in UWA, the frequency diversity design with the Doppler compensation function was elaborated here. The outfield experiments of mobile underwater acoustic communication （UWAC） based on OFDM were carried out with 0.17 bit/（s-Hz） spectral efficiency. The validity and the dependability of the scheme were also analyzed.

A Symbol-Based Passband Doppler Tracking and Compensation Algorithm for Underwater Acoustic DSSS Communications

In this paper,we consider the problem of Doppler tracking and compensation for a direct sequence spread spectrum(DSSS)signal in underwater acoustic(UWA)communication.Since the dynamic property of the UWA channel and the long duration of DSSS signals result in significant Doppler spread that severely distorts the propagated signal,Doppler tracking and compensation are required.Based on the ultra-wideband property of UWA signal,the Doppler spread not only results in the frequency shift,but also changes the signal duration.Therefore,the accurate estimation of the signal expansion/compression in the time domain can reflect the Doppler spread.Accordingly,we present a Doppler tracking and compensation algorithm for a DSSS signal operating on the correlation output of passband signal at a symbol-by-symbol basis.Note that the carrier frequency of UWA communication is around several kilohertz,and thus the time delay estimation can be performed on the passband to improve the accuracy.Furthermore,the prior information of Doppler limit is used to refine the resolution of delay estimation and achieve sequential estimation.To compensate the correlation magnitude distortion induced by the velocity variation,the local reference signal is selected adaptively based on the filtered Doppler factor.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed passband Doppler tracking algorithm achieves a superior performance compared with the conventional receiver.

An underwater acoustic direct sequence spread spectrum communication system using dual spread spectrum code

With the goal of achieving high stability and reliability to support underwater point-to-point communications and code division multiple access(CDMA) based underwater networks, a direct sequence spread spectrum based underwater acoustic communication system using dual spread spectrum code is proposed. To solve the contradictions between the information data rate and the accuracy of Doppler estimation, channel estimation, and frame synchronization, a data frame structure based on dual spread spectrum code is designed. A long spread spectrum code is used as the training sequence, which can be used for data frame detection and synchronization, Doppler estimation, and channel estimation. A short spread spectrum code is used to modulate the effective information data. A delay cross-correlation algorithm is used for Doppler estimation, and a correlation algorithm is used for channel estimation. For underwater networking, each user is assigned a different pair of spread spectrum codes. Simulation results show that the system has a good anti-multipath, anti-interference, and anti-Doppler performance, the bit error rate can be smaller than 10^(-6) when the signal-to-noise ratio is larger than-10 dB, the data rate can be as high as 355 bits/s, and the system can be used in the downlink of CDMA based networks.