Acoustic underwater channel and network simulator

Program Book - OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Yeosu: The Living Ocean and Coast - Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wolff, Lars Michael ^a   Szczepanski, Erik ^a   Badri Hoeher, Sabah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Channel models; numerical simulation; underwater acoustics; underwater communication

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC UNDERWATER CHANNELS; CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE; CHANNEL MODEL; COMMUNICATION DEVICE; DEEP KNOWLEDGE; DOPPLER SPREAD; LOW-PROPAGATION; MOBILE TRANSMITTERS; MODULATION SCHEMES; NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY; NETWORK SIMULATORS; NOISE MODELS; OFDM IMPLEMENTATION; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; RAY-TRACING MODEL; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SEA TRIAL; SHADOW ZONE; TRANSMISSION MEDIUM; UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY HOPPING; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIMULATORS; TRANSMITTERS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84866720753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS-Yeosu.2012.6263608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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