Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Original Version
9-2014
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 and is shown to work on an example from a recent undersea experiment.
Citation/Publisher Attribution
McGee, J., Catipovic, J., and Swaszek, P., "Leveraging Spatial Diversity to Mitigate Partial Band Interference in Undersea Networks through Waveform Reconstruction," Proceedings of the 2014 Oceans Conference, St. John's, Newfoundland, September 2014, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2014.7003066
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2014.7003066
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