Mobile underwater acoustic communication with orthogonal signal division multiplexing under inter-carrier interference larger than a guardband

Abstract

Underwater acoustic (UWA) communication is a key technology providing wireless communication, but using UWA channels is challenging due to the existence of large Doppler and delay spreads. UWA channels also have long but sparse reverberation tails. To address these issues simultaneously, we have proposed Doppler-resilient orthogonal signal division multiplexing using compressed sensing (D-OSDM-CS). The optimization of compressed sensing (CS) under a large Doppler spread remains difficult since noise induced by inter-carrier interference (ICI) is present in the received signal. Herein, we mathematically clarify the effect of ICI-induced noise on the received signal, and we propose an advanced D-OSDM-CS method that can measure ICI-induced noise and optimize the regularization parameter of CS. We also evaluate the performance of the advanced D-OSDM-CS in simulations and experiments. The obtained results suggest that the advanced D-OSDM-CS achieves better communication quality than the existing D-OSDM-CS under a large-Doppler-spread environment.