Title
Leveraging Spatial Diversity to Mitigate Interference in Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
2014
Abstract
Many acoustic channels suffer from interference which is neither narrowband nor impulsive. This relatively long duration partial band interference can be particularly detrimental to system performance. We survey recent work in interference mitigation as background motivation to develop a spatial diversity receiver for use in underwater networks. The network consists of multiple distributed cabled hydrophones that receive data transmitted over a time-varying multipath channel in the presence of partial band interference produced by interfering active sonar signals as well as marine mammal vocalizations. In operational networks, many “dropped” messages are lost due to partial band interference which corrupts different portions of the received signal depending on the relative position of the interferers, information source and receivers due to the slow speed of propagation. Our algorithm has been tested on simulated data.
Citation/Publisher Attribution
McGee, James, Peter Swaszek and Josko Catipovic. “Leveraging Spatial Diversity to Mitigate Interference un Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks.” The Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 135, (2014), pp. 2430-2431. doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2014.7003066
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4878091
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