Abstract

Internal waves are abundant in coastal waters and are known to have a significant impact on acoustic signal propagation. The effect includes significant signal fading to loss of signal coherence depending on the acoustic signal frequencies. This paper presents the analysis results using binary phase-shifted keying signals for underwater acoustic communications during the ASCOT01 experiment. We report the measurements of temporal coherence time as a function of time and relate it to the performance of the decision feedback equalizer. The interpacket coherence was measured using the LFM signals in each packet which were separated by ∼2 min. We see that the intensity and arrival time of the multipath arrivals vary significantly from packet to packets. The signal coherence within a packet (intrapacket) is measured using consecutive m-sequences. We find that at mid (2–5 kHz) frequencies, the acoustic environment, while randomly changing with time on the scale of minutes, presents an instantaneous deterministic environment for each packet; the coherence time is much longer than the packet length. The environmental impact can be mitigated by adequate sampling of the channel impulse response function. [Work supported by the ONR.]

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