Low signal-to-noise-ratio underwater acoustic communications using direct-sequence spread-spectrum signals

OCEANS 2007 - Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yang, T C ^a   Yang, Wen Bin ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DATA REDUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSMITTERS;

DE-SPREADERS; DIRECT-SEQUENCE SPREAD-SPECTRUM SIGNALS; TRANSMITTED SYMBOLS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 36348972869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/oceanse.2007.4302213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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