Abstract

A covert underwater acoustic communication (UAC) method is realized with a dolphin whistle as the information carrier. The proposed method jointly utilizes the spread spectrum and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) techniques. The original dolphin whistle is represented as the complex baseband OFDM transmitted signal and the phase of its discrete Fourier transform (DFT) coefficients are modulated by a spread spectrum code to carry information. The audio quality and waveform similarity are used as two covert effect criterion. In simulations, the influences of the code length and modulation parameters are investigated. It is verified that the communication performance and camouflage effect are a pair of contradictions. Therefore, the best compromise formula should be chosen according to the actual demands.

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