Digital Underwater Acoustic Communications

Digital Underwater Acoustic Communications focuses on describing the differences between underwater acoustic communication channels and radio channels, discusses loss of transmitted sound in underwater acoustic channels, describes digital underwater acoustic communication signal processing, and prov...

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Main Author: Xu, Lufen,
Other Authors: Tianzeng Xu,, TotalBoox,, TBX,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Elsevier Science, 2016.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; DIGITAL UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; DIGITAL UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; Foreword; 1
  • Introduction; 1.1 OVERVIEW OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT; 1.2 PECULIARITIES OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION CHANNELS RELATIVE TO RADIO COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; 1.3 EXPLORATIONS ESTABLISHING AN INNOVATIVE DIGITAL UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM; 1.3.1 Digital Underwater Acoustic Communications; 1.3.2 Main Civil Digital Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems at Present.
  • 1.3.3 Explorations Establishing an Innovative Digital Underwater Acoustic Communication System1.4 COMMUNICATION SONAR EQUATION; References; 2
  • Underwater Acoustic Communication Channels; 2.1 THEORETICAL METHODS OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC FIELDS; 2.1.1 Wave Equation and Conditions for Determining Solution [1]; 2.1.2 Theory of Ray Acoustics; 2.1.2.1 Fundamental Equations of Ray Acoustics; 2.1.2.2 Ray Equation in Layered Media; 2.1.2.3 Ray Diagrams in Layered Media; 2.2 SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS IN THE SEA; 2.2.1 Sound Fields in Layered Inhomogeneous Media.
  • 2.2.1.1 Sound Anti-Channeling Propagations [7]2.2.1.2 Sound Propagations in Deep-Sea Sound Channeling [1,5]; 2.2.1.2.1 THE SIGNAL WAVEFORMS IN DEEP-SEA SOUND CHANNELING; 2.2.1.2.2 RAY ACOUSTIC ANALYSES FOR THE SOUND FIELD IN CONVERGENCE ZONES; 2.2.2 Transmission Loss Due to Sound Absorption in the Seawater; 2.2.2.1 Sound Absorption in Pure Water; 2.2.2.1.1 SOUND ABSORPTION DUE TO THERMAL CONDUCTION; 2.2.2.1.2 EXCESS ABSORPTION DUE TO RELAXATION PROCESS; 2.2.2.2 Sound Absorption in the Seawater.
  • 2.2.3 Impacts of Sound Transmission Loss on Digital Underwater Acoustic Communications and Possible Countermeasures2.2.3.1 Impacts of TL on Underwater Acoustic Communications; 2.2.3.2 Countermeasures to Adapt to Great TL Occurring in Underwater Acoustic Communication Channels; 2.2.3.2.1 RAISING SOUND POWER WA; 2.2.3.2.2 LOWERING OPERATING FREQUENCIES; 2.2.3.2.3 SELECTING AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH B; 2.2.3.2.4 POSSIBLE APPROACHES TO ADAPT TO THE SPATIAL-TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN UNDERWATER SOUND FIELDS; 2.3 MULTIPATH EFFECTS IN UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION CHANNELS.
  • 2.3.1 Solutions of Normal Modes with Respect to Sound Propagations in Two-Layer Media2.3.1.1 The Solutions of the Normal Mode for Continuous Sound Wave Propagations; 2.3.1.1.1 PART OF NORMAL MODES; 2.3.1.1.2 ORTHOGONAL PROPERTIES OF NORMAL MODES; 2.3.1.1.3 FLANK WAVE PART; 2.3.1.2 Propagation of a Sound Pulse in the Two-Layer Media; 2.3.2 Expression of Virtual Source Images for Sound Propagations in Layered Media [4]; 2.3.3 Experimental Researches on Multipath Structures in Underwater Acoustic Communication Channels; 2.3.3.1 Multipath Structures in Deep-Sea Sound Channeling.