相干水声通信幅相加权空间分集均衡算法

水声信道的典型特点为多普勒频移严重、可利用带宽窄以及强多径干扰。空间分集均衡技术是相干水声通信中克服信道多径干扰,消除码间干扰的一种有效手段。为了极大化地输出阵增益,结合无源相位共轭方法和多通道均衡算法,本文设计了组合信噪干比的全新信道评价方法。利用改进的Sigmoid函数对各通道接收信号的幅度进行加权处理;采用二阶锁相环跟踪各通道信号的相位变化,实现各通道信号同相累加。将各通道低通滤波后的信号能量归一化,采用了分数阶-判决反馈分集均衡器,加入各通道权重系数实现了水声通信系统的分集均衡接收。仿真结果和湖试数据处理结果均表明,优化的幅相加权分集均衡接收算法能抵消多径和噪声的干扰,性能优于等增益合并接收算法。湖试数据处理结果误码率降低了1.8%。     

用于单载波频域均衡水声通信的可分近似稀疏信道估计

针对单载波频域均衡水声通信中信道估计易受噪声干扰的问题,提出了一种低复杂度的信道估计方法。考虑水声信道的时域稀疏特性,导出频域输入、输出信号与信道冲激响应的关系式,并引入稀疏正则项,构造稀疏信道估计的目标函数。然后利用可分近似对目标函数进行迭代优化,再经过稀疏化与去偏处理,得到信道传递函数的最终估计。最后,利用数值仿真和海试数据对所提出方法的性能和运算效率进行评估。较之传统信道估计方法,所提出的方法在估计精度和计算复杂度方面具有一定的优势。     

水声通信系统中双向turbo均衡算法

提出了一种水声通信系统中直接自适应双向turbo均衡算法。摒弃了信道估计步骤,采用基于直接自适应的turbo均衡器,并利用内嵌数字锁相环的判决反馈均衡器结构跟踪时变信道,采用最速优化算法自适应调整迭代步长,使得收敛速度和算法性能得到很好折中。此外,利用最小均方误差准则,得到最优权重因子,对正向与反向turbo均衡结果加权求和,消除误差传播效应。仿真和湖上实验验证了方法的正确性,双向均衡的性能优于单向均衡。湖上实验结果表明,基于直接自适应算法相比于基于信道估计的算法,对时变信道不敏感,能获得更低的误比特率。     

水声通信低复杂度最大似然联合均衡译码方法

现有Turbo均衡采用迭代联合均衡译码结构,这一迭代过程在信噪比高于某一门限后才能产生正向的迭代增益,当信道码间干扰较为严重或者采用高阶调制方式时,该信噪比门限较高;同时,现有Turbo均衡的性能还受限于其交织器长度,故当码块长度较短时,其性能并不理想。针对以上问题,提出了一种基于Spinal码的联合均衡译码方法。首先,该方法采用非迭代的最大似然联合均衡译码结构,有效避免了Turbo均衡迭代结构所带来的信噪比门限高问题;其次,该方法采用信息混合能力更强的Spinal码,有助于提高码块长度受限时的误码率性能;最后,该方法利用Spinal码可以有效增加相似信息序列间汉明距离的特点,将联合均衡译码时间复杂度降低为仅随信息序列长度与信道响应长度呈线性增长,解决了本方法难以实际应用于实时水声通信的难题。在抚仙湖湖试中,同样实现速率为3.34kbps数据通信,该方法的误码率优于Turbo均衡方法两个数量级以上。时变水声信道下的仿真以及湖试结果表明,该方法在码长受限的情况下仍在复杂水声信道中表现出更好性能,其所需的最低输入信噪比显著低于现有Turbo均衡方法。     

Intersymbol interference in underwater acoustic communications using time-reversal signal processing

Coherent underwater communication is hampered by the time spread inherent to acoustic propagation in the ocean. Because time-reversal signal processing produces pulse compression, communications has been suggested as a natural application of the technique. Passive versions of time-reversal processing use a receive-only array to do combined temporal and spatial matched filtering. It can be shown, however, that the pulse compression it achieves is not perfect and that an equalizer that relies solely on time-reversal processing will have an error floor caused by uncompensated intersymbol interference (ISI). In the present paper, a physics-based model is developed for the uncompensated ISI in a passive time-reversal equalizer. The model makes use of a normal-mode expansion for the acoustic field. The matched-filtering integral is approximated and the intermediate result interpreted using the waveguide invariant. After combining across the array and sampling, formal statistical averages of the soft demodulation output are calculated. The results show how performance scales with bandwidth, with the number and position of array elements, and with the length of the finite impulse response matched filters. Good agreement is obtained between the predicted scaling and that observed in field experiments.     

Exploiting joint sparsity for underwater acoustic MIMO communications

MIMO communication has been recognized as a potential solution for high speed underwater acoustic communication, which unfortunately encounters significant difficulties posed by simultaneous presence of multipath and Co-channel interference (CoI). Sparsity contained in the multipath structure of underwater acoustic channels offers an effective way for improving channel estimation quality and thus enhancing the communication performance in the form of time reversal or channel estimation based equalization. However, for MIMO channels with extensive multipath and CoI, the performance gain achieved by classic sparsity exploitation channel estimation methods such as orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) is still not enough to yield satisfactory performance. Under quasi-stationary assumption, underwater acoustic channels of adjacent data blocks exhibit correlated multipath structure, namely, multipath arrivals with similar time delay but different magnitude, which has not been exploited. In this paper, a joint sparse recovery approach is proposed to exploit the sparse correlation among adjacent data blocks to improve the performance of channel estimation. Under the framework of distributed compressed sensing (DCS), a joint sparse model which treats the multipath arrivals as sparse solutions with common time support is adopted to derive a joint sparse recovery algorithm for efficient channel estimation, the results of which are used to initialize and periodly update a channel estimation based time reversal receiver. Finally, underwater MIMO communication experimental results obtained in a shallow water channel are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, compared to the same type of receiver that do not exploit the joint sparse.     

Chaotic modulations and performance analysis for digital underwater acoustic communications

Two modulation schemes, M-ary phase shift keying (MPSK) and M-ary frequency shift keying (MFSK), are commonly used for coherent and incoherent digital communications, respectively. Despite wide applications in underwater acoustic (UWA) communications, they are not suitable for confidential applications for their well-known generating processes and signal features. In this paper, two corresponding chaotic modulation methods are proposed to improve their security, namely chaotic MPSK (CMPSK) and chaotic MFSK (CMFSK). By application of chaotic sequences into the modulation procedures, they can prevent the unauthorized receivers from extracting information from the intercepted signals even with high SNR. The confidential performance of chaotic modulations is evaluated by a designed automatic modulation classification (AMC) system. Simulation results indicate a success identification rate of more than 90% for the MPSK and MFSK signal at the SNR from −10 dB to 40 dB, but only an identification rate of nearly zero for the CMPSK and CMFSK signal. Therefore, chaotic modulations have lower available probability and can achieve higher confidential performance. Also, an experiment was conducted to verify the performance of chaotic modulations in actual UWA communications. The experimental results show that chaotic modulations can achieve similar bit error ratio (BER) compared with conventional digital modulations, which verifies potential applications of chaotic modulations in confidential UWA communications.     

水声物理、信号处理与海洋环境紧密结合是水声技术发展的趋势

声波是目前唯一能在海洋中远距离传播的波动形式，发展水声技术具有极其重要的应用背景。作为一门交叉学科，近十年来水声技术的发展是与水声物理、信号处理以及海洋环境的紧密结合是分不开的，本文利用最近的研究成果来说明这一趋势。     

水声通信中基于信道辨识的盲turbo均衡方法

水声信道多途效应明显,造成接收信号存在严重的码间干扰(ISI,Intersymbol interference)。基于最小均方误差(MMSE,Minimum mean square error)准则的turbo均衡器级联了均衡和信道译码,能够有效去除ISI,并获得优良的性能。由于水声信道的时变性,传统MMSE-turbo均衡需要周期性的训练序列,以实现连续可靠的通信。训练序列虽然提高了通信的可靠性,但降低了信息的有效传输速率。因此,为提高通信效率,本文提出了一种盲turbo均衡方法,该方法通过引入新的盲信道辨识器来同时获得信道估计响应和已去除部分ISI的初步均衡输出信号,并为turbo均衡提供初始的响应参数和比特软信息。与水声通信中应用较多的盲判决反馈均衡器(DFE,Decision feedback equalizer)相比,海上实验结果证明本文提出的盲turbo均衡方法抗信道多途衰落的能力较强,并且与传统MMSE-turbo均衡相比无需训练序列,因此提高了信息的有效传输速率。     

Bandwidth-efficient frequency-domain equalization for single carrier multiple-input multiple-output underwater acoustic communications

This paper proposes a single carrier (SC) receiver scheme with bandwidth-efficient frequency-domain equalization (FDE) for underwater acoustic (UWA) communications employing multiple transducers and multiple hydrophones. Different from the FDE methods that perform FDE on a whole data block, the proposed algorithm implements an overlapped-window FDE by partitioning a large block into small subblocks. A decision-directed channel estimation scheme is incorporated with the overlapped-window FDE to track channel variations and improve the error performance. The proposed algorithm significantly increases the length of each block and keeps the same number of training symbols per block, hence achieving better data efficiency without performance degradation. The proposed scheme is tested by the undersea data collected in the Rescheduled Acoustic Communications Experiment (RACE) in March 2008. Without coding, the 2-by-12 MIMO overlapped-window FDE reduces the average bit error rate (BER) over traditional SC-FDE schemes by 74.4% and 84.6% for the 400 m and 1000 m range systems, respectively, at the same data efficiency. If the same BER performance is required, the proposed algorithm has only 8.4% transmission overhead, comparing to over 20% overhead in other existing UWA OFDM and SC-FDE systems. The improved data efficiency and/or error performance of the proposed FDE scheme is achieved by slightly increased computational complexity over traditional SC-FDE schemes.     

水声正交频分复用异步多用户接入方法

水声信道传播时延大导致水声通信网中上行用户同步困难,因此需要接收端具备异步多用户检测能力。针对水声正交频分复用(OFDM)异步多用户系统提出一种基于滑动迭代的异步多用户接入方法,包括重叠截断、干扰消除、频域过采样、多用户信道估计与解码、以及干扰重构5个处理模块,并通过滑动迭代结构同时消除前向干扰和后向干扰影响。仿真结果表明,所提方法在不同异步到达时延,以及有、无信道估计误差下的误比特率均明显低于逐块解调异步接收算法。水池实验结果表明,滑动迭代异步接收算法在多径扩展18 ms、异步到达时延大于或等于循环前缀1.5倍时实现了两用户异步接入的可靠通信。     

多波束分集深海远程正交频分复用水声通信

针对深海远程信道传播衰减大、多途扩展严重的问题,提出一种单输入多输出（SIMO）模型下的水声正交频分复用（OFDM）多波束空间分集均衡方法。建立了深海远程信道下SIMO-OFDM接收信号模型,对宽带波束形成处理后的多个到达角度的波束输出进行独立的多普勒补偿和稀疏信道估计,最后基于最大比合并实现多波束均衡。相对于远程通信中常用的单波束处理方法,所提方法可获得额外的不同到达角度的多径分集增益;且基于阵列波束形成处理可明显提升各个波束输出信噪比,避免了单阵元信噪比过低导致的信道估计误差增大的问题。所提方法的计算复杂度大于单波束均衡,但低于多阵元最大比合并均衡。基于BELLHOP的数值仿真和中国南海实验结果表明,所提方法的误码率性能明显优于单波束均衡和最大比合并均衡,且在100 km的距离上实现了通信速率199 bps的无误码通信。     

Joint passive-phase conjugation with adaptive multichannel combining for coherent underwater acoustic communications

This paper presents a receiver structure which exploits spatial diversity by adaptive multichannel combining, which improves the performance of passive time reversal communications realized by passive-phase conjugation (PPC). PPC processing achieves pulse compression for the time delayed arrivals at the receiver, and this property is used for coherent communications to reduce the computational load. The presented structure takes advantage of pulse compression and performs adaptive multichannel combining, where the number of taps for adaptive multichannel processing is significantly reduced in order to decrease the computational load. With a previous output mean square error (MSE), the adaptive combining minimizes current output MSE, where spatial diversity is exploited by the adaptive combining. This structure improves performance of the passive time reversal approach, even though the taps for combining span one symbol interval. The performance improvement is demonstrated by a set of real data collected in a recent sea experiment, which was conducted in a range dependent acoustic channel over a range of 4 km.     

Multi-array iterative receiver for underwater acoustic OFDM communications with EXIT chart evaluation

In this paper, a multi-array iterative receiver based on log-likelihood ratio (LLR)-combining detection involving joint sparse channel estimation and decoding is proposed for underwater acoustic OFDM communication. First, Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart analysis is applied to evaluate the convergence behavior of the iterative receiver using the real data collected from the Kauai Acomms MURI 2011 (KAM11) experiment. This experiment was conducted in about 106 m-depth shallow water west of Kauai, HI, in June 2011, with a 20 kHz bandwidth (12–32 kHz) at range up to 3 km. It helps to explain the impact of different data configurations, detectors, and the diversity combinations in a highly inhomogeneous underwater environment and to predict the bit-error rate (BER) performance of the proposed receiver. Then the BERs as a function of the number of combined elements are illustrated to verify the prediction and analysis via the EXIT chart. Data transmission using 16QAM modulation achieves a BER of 10⁻⁴ at a data rate of 21 kb/s. The results provide guidance for the design of system parameters including the data configurations, the number of iterations for both iterative processing and low density parity check (LDPC) decoding, which are beneficial to achieve a good efficiency-performance tradeoff.     

Multi-input multi-output underwater communications over sparse and frequency modulated acoustic channels

This paper addresses multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communications over sparse acoustic channels suffering from frequency modulations. An extension of the recently introduced SLIM algorithm, which stands for sparse learning via iterative minimization, is presented to estimate the sparse and frequency modulated acoustic channels. The extended algorithm is referred to as generalization of SLIM (GoSLIM). The sparseness is exploited through a hierarchical Bayesian model, and because GoSLIM is user parameter free, it is easy to use in practical applications. Moreover this paper considers channel equalization and symbol detection for various MIMO transmission schemes, including both space-time block coding and spatial multiplexing, under the challenging channel conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches is demonstrated using in-water experimental measurements recently acquired during WHOI09 and ACOMM10 experiments.     

Measurement of sound absorption by underwater acoustic material using pulse-separation method

An alternative pulse-separation method is presented for measuring the sound absorption at normal incidence of an underwater acoustic material in a water-filled impedance tube. A damped sine pulse was generated in the water-filled impedance tube with a regular waveform and a short duration time of approximately 1 ms. During the generation of the pulse, the inverse filter principle was used to compensate for the transducer response. In addition, the effects of the characteristics of the tube termination can be eliminated during the generation of the pulse to obtain a single plane pulse wave in the impedance tube, which is a necessary condition for this technique. Measurements of the sound absorption coefficient of the rubber material and the reflection coefficient from a water/air interface were used to verify the pulse-separation method.     

第三讲 让声纳系统耳目一新：新型水声换能器与换能器新技术

文章综述了新型水声换能器设计与换能器新技术的重要进展.主要涉及：稀土超磁致伸缩材料、弛豫铁电材料、压电聚合物薄膜等新材料的发展及其水声换能器的新设计,基于新结构的新型水声换能器,利用不同能量转换机理的新型水声换能器,宽带换能器新技术等等;对于接收型换能器着重介绍了光纤水听器和矢量水听器.     

第三讲让声纳系统耳目一新:新型水声换能器与换能器新技术

文章综述了新型水声换能器设计与换能器新技术的重要进展.主要涉及：稀土超磁致伸缩材料、弛豫铁电材料、压电聚合物薄膜等新材料的发展及其水声换能器的新设计,基于新结构的新型水声换能器,利用不同能量转换机理的新型水声换能器,宽带换能器新技术等等;对于接收型换能器着重介绍了光纤水听器和矢量水听器.     

单基阵三维纯方位水下信标声学定位方法

针对水下静止信标的纯方位定位问题,提出一种基于单基阵平台纯方位信息的定位方法。通过水下无人运动平台两次量测的空间角度信息建立非线性方程,利用拟牛顿迭代方法实现稳定数值求解。同时,对量测信息进行预处理和定位后置处理,以进一步提高算法的稳定性和精度。利用计算机模拟水下声传播环境进行定位仿真,结果表明,基于常规波束形成的方位估计结果,在方位量测误差标准差为1°时,所提方法的定位结果相对误差可达3.5%以内。同时,研究了不同方位量测误差条件下、不同海深测量误差条件、观测平台和目标不同态势下定位算法的定位性能。结果表明,此方法可用于对水下静止信标的声学定位,且鲁棒性好。     

猝发混合扩频水声隐蔽通信技术

针对常规的连续载波调制扩频通信方式容易通过能量检测的方法被截获的问题,提出了一种猝发的混合扩频水声隐蔽通信方式,该方法通过在时间上随机的发送脉冲混合调制扩频信号来降低截获概率,而且可以比较灵活的通过调整平均占空比来满足不同隐蔽性的要求,但是该隐蔽性是以牺牲通信速率为代价的。猝发信号中混合了二进制相位键控(BPSK)、循环移位键控(CSK)和多进制频移键控(MFSK)扩频调制方式,采用自同步和时频二维搜索算法实现码元和载波同步。通过仿真分析了猝发通信系统的隐蔽性能和多途信道下的误码性能,并且通过了南海海试验证了算法的性能,在5 km的通信距离上,4 kHz的带宽内,单个脉冲信号的通信速率可以达到317 bps,误码率达到10^-3以下。