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DFT-spread OFDM Communication System for the Power Efficiency and Nonlinear Distortion in Underwater Communication

수중통신에서 비선형 왜곡과 전력효율을 위한 DFT-spread OFDM 통신 시스템

  • 이우민 (충북대학교 전자정보대학 전자공학과) ;
  • 유흥균 (충북대학교 전자정보대학 전자공학과)
  • Received : 2010.04.05
  • Accepted : 2010.08.06
  • Published : 2010.08.31
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Abstract

Recently, the necessity of underwater communication and demand for transmitting and receiving various data such as voice or high resolution image data are increasing as well. The performance of underwater acoustic communication system is influenced by characteristics of the underwater communication channels. Especially, ISI(inter symbol interference) occurs because of delay spread according to multi-path and communication performance is degraded. In this paper, we study the OFDM technique to overcome the delay spread in underwater channel and by using CP, we compensate for delay spread. But PAPR which OFDM system has problem is very high. Therefore, we use DFT-spread OFDM method to avoid nonlinear distortion by high PAPR and to improve efficiency of amplifier. DFT-spread OFDM technique obtains high PAPR reduction effect because of each parallel data loads to all subcarrier by DFT spread processing before IFFT. In this paper, we show performance about delay spread through OFDM system and verify method that DFT spread OFDM is more suitable than OFDM for underwater communication. And we analyze performance according to two subcarrier mapping methods(Interleaved, Localized). Through the simulation results, performance of DFT spread OFDM is better about 5~6dB at $10^{-4}$ than OFDM. When compared to BER according to subcarrier mapping, Interleaved method is better about 3.5dB at $10^{-4}$ than Localized method.

최근 수중 통신에 대한 관심이 급증하고 있으며, 수중 통신을 통한 음성 및 고해상도 영상 데이터와 같은 다양한 데이터 전송의 요구가 증가하고 있다. 수중 음향 통신 시스템의 성능은 수중 채널의 특성에 의해 크게 영향을 받으며, 특히 수중 채널 환경은 다중경로(Multi-path)에 따른 지연확산(delay spread)으로 인하여 데이터 전송 시 인접 심볼 간의 간섭(Inter Symbol interference: ISI)이 발생하여 통신의 성능을 저하시킨다. 본 논문에서는 지연 확산에 강한 성능을 나타내는 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 기법을 수중 통신 시스템에 적용하고, OFDM의 CP(Cyclic Prefix)를 이용하여 수중 채널 환경의 다중경로로 인한 지연 확산을 보상한다. 하지만 수중 통신 시스템에 OFDM을 적용할 때, OFDM 시스템이 갖는 고유한 문제인 높은 PAPR(Peak-to-Average Power Ratio)이 발생한다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 높은 PAPR로 인한 신호의 비선형 왜곡을 피하고 증폭기의 효율을 위하여 DFT-spread OFDM 기법을 적용한다. DFT-spread OFDM 방식은 IFFT 수행 이전에 DFT(discrete Fourier transform) 확산을 수행하여 각각의 병렬 데이터를 모든 부반송파들에 실어 줌으로써 좋은 PAPR 저감 효과를 얻는다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 OFDM 시스템을 통해 수중 채널에서 지연 확산에 대한 성능 이득을 보이고, 일반적인 OFDM 시스템보다 DFT-spread OFDM이 수중 통신 환경에서 더 적합한 통신 방식임을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 보였다. 그리고 DFT-spread OFDM의 두 가지 자원 분배 방식(Interleaved, Localized)에 따른 성능을 분석하고 수중 통신 환경에서 자원 분배 방식에 따른 성능의 적응성에 대하여 논의하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 CP 삽입을 통한 보상후의 BER 성능은 DFT-spread OFDM 방식이 일반 OFDM에 비하여 $10^{-4}$에서 약 5~6dB 정도 좋은 것을 보였으며, 자원 분배 방식에 따른 BER 성능을 비교하였을 때, Interleaved 방식은 Localized 방식에 비하여 $10^{-4}$에서 약 3.5dB 정도 좋은 것을 보였다.

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