Document Type
Conference Proceeding
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 and compare this novel multi-receiver interference mitigation strategy with a recently developed single receiver interference mitigation algorithm using experimental data collected from the underwater acoustic network at the Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Center. 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. 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.
Citation/Publisher Attribution
McGee, J., Schoenecker, S., Catipovic, J., & Swaszek, P. (2014). A Comparison of a Single Receiver and a Multi-Receiver Techniques to Mitigate Partial Band Interference." Proceedings of the International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNET '14), pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1145/2671490.2674563
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2671490.2674563
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