Detection, synchronization, and doppler scale estimation with multicarrier waveforms in underwater acoustic communication

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1638-1649

  Mason, Sean F ^a   Berger, Christian R ^a   Zhou, Shengli ^a   Willett, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; OFDM; Synchronization and Doppler scale estimation; Underwater acoustic communication; Wideband channel

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS; ACOUSTICS; ALARM SYSTEMS; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMMUNICATION; CORRELATORS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DEMODULATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PROBABILITY; SYNCHRONIZATION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BIT ERRORS; CYCLIC PREFIXES; DATA BURSTS; DATA DEMODULATIONS; DATA PACKETS; DATA TRANSMISSIONS; DENSE MULTIPATH; DETECTION; DETECTION THRESHOLDS; DOPPLER; EXISTING METHODS; FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS; MULTICARRIER; NOISE LEVELS; NOVEL METHODS; OFDM; OFDM SYMBOLS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTIONS; PROBABILITY OF FALSE ALARMS; REAL DATUMS; REAL TIMES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SCALE ESTIMATIONS; SCALING FACTORS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; WIDEBAND CHANNEL;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 51449120899     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2008.081204     Document Type: Article

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