Differential decoding for SFBC OFDM systems in underwater MIMO channels

H. Eghbali, Milica Stojanovic, S. Muhaidat

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Abstract

We investigate the use of differential space frequency block codes (SFBCs) with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) over underwater acoustic channels. While SFBC efficiently exploits spatial transmit diversity, differentially coherent detection eliminates the need for extensive signal processing required for channel tracking. System performance is demonstrated using real data transmitted in the 12-26 kHz acoustic band from a vehicle moving at 0.5-2 m/s and received over a 100 m shallow water channel, using 4-QAM and a varying number of carriers ranging from 128 to 2048. Performance results demonstrate the advantage of the differentially coherent SFBC detection over the conventional, coherent SFBC detection which suffers from imperfect channel estimation.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages8102-8105
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781479928927
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 4 May 20149 May 2014

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period4/05/149/05/14

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