OFDM-IDMA communications over underwater acoustic channels

Jian Dang, Fengzhong Qu, Zaichen Zhang, Liuqing Yang

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Abstract

The combination of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and interleave division multiple access (IDMA), known as OFDM-IDMA, has been proposed as a promising multiple access scheme for wireless communications due to its low decoding complexity and potential of achieving high spectral efficiency. However, most of the work on OFDM-IDMA is in radio frequency (RF) communications scenarios and based on computer simulations. In this paper, we propose OFDM-IDMA over underwater acoustic (UWA) channels with experimental results. We also extend the original OFDM-IDMA to a multiple hydrophones scenario to improve the bit error rate (BER) performance. Experimental results show that with multiple hydrophones, the coded BER performance of OFDM-IDMA approaches zero after only a few iterations, validating the feasibility of our proposed approach over UWA channels.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2010 Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2010
Pages418-423
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2011 - Baltimore, MD, United States
Duration: Nov 7 2011Nov 10 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBaltimore, MD
Period11/7/1111/10/11

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