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Modeling Underwater Acoustic Channels in Short-range Shallow Water Environments

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Hovannes Kulhandjian,

Tommaso MelodiaAuthors Info & Claims

WUWNet '14: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems

Article No.: 26, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/2671490.2674560

Published: 12 November 2014 Publication History

Abstract

We analyze the statistical channel properties of short to very short-range shallow water communication environments based on real channel measurements taken in a water-tank, a swimming pool, very shallow and shallow lakes. More specifically, we estimate the channel impulse response (CIR), the probability density function (PDF) of channel fading and fit to Rayleigh, Nakagami, Weibull, Rician and Beta distributions. We compare the `goodness-of-fit' of these distributions based on the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence criteria. From our experimental results, we confirm that the shallow water acoustic channel is highly time-varying and does not necessarily follow a Rayleigh distribution. Instead, we observe that in very-shallow water lake environments the channel fading exhibits close-to Weibull or Rician distribution. On the other hand, in shallow water lake the channel fading behavior is better captured by a Beta distribution.

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WUWNet '14: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems

November 2014

230 pages

ISBN:9781450332774

DOI:10.1145/2671490

General Chairs:
Chiara Petrioli
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
,
Tommaso Melodia
Northeastern University, USA
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Program Chairs:
Fumin Zhang
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Zhengdao Wang
Iowa State University, USA
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Joao Gomes
Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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