Low probability of detection underwater acoustic communications using direct-sequence spread spectrum

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3632-3647

  Yang, T C ^a   Yang, Wen Bin ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND ENERGIES; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; DIRECT-SEQUENCE SPREAD SPECTRUMS; ENERGY DETECTORS; LONG CODES; LOW DATA RATES; LOW PROBABILITY OF DETECTIONS; PHASE CHANGES; PHASE DIFFERENCES; PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTIONS; PROCESSING GAINS; RECEIVER ALGORITHMS; SHALLOW WATER ENVIRONMENTS; SHORT CODES; SIGNAL BANDWIDTHS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SOURCE LEVELS; SOURCE MOTIONS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTICS; CODES (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PROBABILITY; RADAR; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60049089855     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2996329     Document Type: Article

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