Pseudo-Noise Based Time of Arrival Estimation for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Localization
Abstract
This paper compares the performance of single pseudo-noise (PN) and dual PN (DPN) sequences for time of arrival (ToA) estimation in underwater acoustic (UWA) localization. The single PN scheme uses the correlation of a local PN sequence and the received PN signal to estimate the ToA. The DPN scheme utilizes the cross correlation of the two received PN segments in one signal frame to calculate the ToA. Both simulation and field test results show that the DPN design outperforms the single PN scheme, as the DPN scheme is robust to the severe underwater acoustic channel dispersion and the high carrier frequency offset (CFO) in low-cost hardware systems where the atomic clock is unavailable.
Recommended Citation
H. Huang et al., "Pseudo-Noise Based Time of Arrival Estimation for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Localization," Proceedings of OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Shanghai (2016, Shanghai, China), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Apr 2016.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485588
Meeting Name
OCEANS '16 MTS/IEEE Shanghai (2016, Apr. 10-13, Shanghai, China)
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Keywords and Phrases
Acoustic noise; Frequency allocation; Underwater acoustics; Carrier frequency offsets; Cross correlations; Low cost hardware; PN sequence; Pseudo noise; Time of arrival estimation; Underwater acoustic channels; Underwater acoustic sensors; Time of arrival
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-0-9339-5743-5
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Apr 2016
Comments
This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation grant ECCS1408316 of the United States.