Turbo Equalization for Single-Carrier Underwater Acoustic Communications

Abstract

Recent research in underwater acoustic communications has taken advantage of MIMO technologies to achieve reliable communication with 10-100 times increase of data rate in comparison to traditional systems. The powerful turbo equalization and FEC coding techniques enable both single-carrier modulation and OFDM systems to combat triply selective UWA channels. This article reviews the time-domain and frequency-domain turbo equalizer schemes for MIMO SCM systems. Low-complexity techniques are presented with both turbo linear equalizers and turbo soft decision feedback equalizers in both the time and frequency domains. Although results are shown specifically for UWA channels, these turbo equalizer techniques are also suitable for terrestrial RF communication systems.

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sponsor(s)

United States. Office of Naval Research
National Science Foundation (U.S.)

Comments

This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under grants N00014-07-1-0219 and N00014-10-1-0174, and by the National Science Foundation under grants ECCS-0846486, CCF-0915846, ECCS-1202075, ECCS-1231848, and ECCS-1408316.

Keywords and Phrases

Data communication systems; Frequency domain analysis; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; Time domain analysis; Underwater acoustics; Frequency domains; Reliable communication; Single carrier modulation; Soft decision feedback; Time and frequency domains; Traditional systems; Turbo equalizations; Underwater acoustic communications; Decision feedback equalizers

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0163-6804

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Nov 2015

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