TY - JOUR
T1 - An underwater acoustic communication scheme exploiting biological sounds
AU - Elmoslimany, Ahmad
AU - Zhou, Meng
AU - Duman, Tolga M.
AU - Papandreou-Suppappola, Antonia
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation under the contract NSF-ECCS 1102357 and by the Office of Naval Research MURI, Grant N00014-07-1-0739.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2016/10/25
Y1 - 2016/10/25
N2 - Underwater acoustic (UWA) communications have attracted a lot of interest in recent years motivated by a wide range of applications including offshore oil field exploration and monitoring, oceanographic data collection, environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, and port security. Different signaling solutions have been developed to date including non-coherent communications, phase coherent systems, multi-input and multi-output solutions, time-reversal-based communication systems, and multi-carrier transmission approaches. This paper deviates from the traditional approaches to UWA communications and develops a scheme that exploits biomimetic signals. In the proposed scheme, a transmitter maps the information bits to the parameters of a biomimetic signal, which is transmitted over the channel. The receiver estimates the parameters of the received signal and demaps them back to bits to estimate the message. As exemplary biomimetic signals, analytical signal models with nonlinear instantaneous frequency are developed that match mammal sound signatures in the time-frequency plane are developed. Suitable receiver structures as well as performance analysis are provided for the proposed transmission scheme, and some results using data recorded during the Kauai Acomms MURI 2011 UWA communications experiment are presented.
AB - Underwater acoustic (UWA) communications have attracted a lot of interest in recent years motivated by a wide range of applications including offshore oil field exploration and monitoring, oceanographic data collection, environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, and port security. Different signaling solutions have been developed to date including non-coherent communications, phase coherent systems, multi-input and multi-output solutions, time-reversal-based communication systems, and multi-carrier transmission approaches. This paper deviates from the traditional approaches to UWA communications and develops a scheme that exploits biomimetic signals. In the proposed scheme, a transmitter maps the information bits to the parameters of a biomimetic signal, which is transmitted over the channel. The receiver estimates the parameters of the received signal and demaps them back to bits to estimate the message. As exemplary biomimetic signals, analytical signal models with nonlinear instantaneous frequency are developed that match mammal sound signatures in the time-frequency plane are developed. Suitable receiver structures as well as performance analysis are provided for the proposed transmission scheme, and some results using data recorded during the Kauai Acomms MURI 2011 UWA communications experiment are presented.
KW - LPI and LPD communication scheme
KW - biological sounds
KW - underwater acoustic communications
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U2 - 10.1002/wcm.2676
DO - 10.1002/wcm.2676
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84973295209
VL - 16
SP - 2194
EP - 2211
JO - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
JF - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
SN - 1530-8669
IS - 15
ER -