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Experimental Performance Evaluation of MIMO Underwater Acoustic Communication in Water Tank

수조에서 MIMO 수중음향통신의 실험적 성능 고찰

  • Gwun, Byung-Chul (Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University) ;
  • Kim, Ki-Man (Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
  • Received : 2013.03.11
  • Accepted : 2013.06.26
  • Published : 2013.07.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we have analyzed the performance of MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) underwater acoustic communication by using the acquired data via the experiments in water tank. First of all, in the pursuit of this aim, we have measured the channel transfer characteristics at several transceiver locations. The transmitted signal was modulated by QPSK(Quadrature Phase Shit Keying) and the received signal was recovered through the detector that contains the zero forcing equalizer. A maximum 30~40 ms delay was appeared because of physically closed water tank environment that has the harsh multi-path transmission conditions. In result of experiment, even though the bit error rate showed comparatively large when $2{\times}2$ MIMO system with two transmitters and receivers was considered. However, we confirmed it has approximately 15% enhanced performance compared with SISO (Single-Input Single-Output) system.

본 논문에서는 수조에서 실험을 통해 획득한 데이터를 이용하여 MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) 수중음향통신의 성능을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 먼저 여러 송수신 위치에서 채널 전달 특성을 측정하였다. 송신신호는 QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying)로 변조하였으며, 수신신호는 Zero Forcing 등화기 등을 포함하는 검출기를 거쳐 복원되었다. 실험이 이루어진 수조 환경이 물리적으로 폐쇄된 매우 심한 다중 경로 전달 환경이어서 최대 30~40 ms의 지연 현상이 나타났다. 실험 결과 송신 및 수신 센서가 각각 두 개인 $2{\times}2$ MIMO 시스템을 사용하였을 때 채널 특성으로 인해 비트 오차율이 비교적 크게 나타났지만 SISO (Single-Input Single-Output) 시스템에 비해 약 15% 정도 향상된 성능을 갖는 것을 확인하였다.

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