Communication Channel Influence on Self Interference Cancellation for In-Band Full-Duplex Underwater Acoustic Systems

Abstract

This paper employs a self-interference cancellation (IBFD-UWA) system for shallow-water acoustic channels by depending on the model of communication channel for SI cancellation, which is based on geometry to accommodate any possible changes in the underwater environment. UWA channels have propagation characteristics based on the configurations of straight and multi-direction mirrors between a transmitter and a receiver. This propagation at the node itself and between the two nodes to transfer information between the nodes operating in the IBFD mode, orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) modulation with quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) mapping. By using numerical simulations, it can be shown that the developed model is able to accurately describe the underwater acoustic environment. The results indicate that local multipath propagation delays can exceed 1.4s with transmission losses of up to 80dB, and the SIC requires about 4 seconds to reduce SI signals to background noise levels successfully.