An inter-carrier interference reduction scheme for OFDM underwater acoustic communications

L. F. Yeung, Geng Nian, Zhan Choujun

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Abstract

The inter-carrier interference (ICI) of the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols caused by the transducers dynamic in underwater acoustic (UWA) communications has been presented in this paper. Both the practical experiment and simulation results show that the othorgonality property of OFDM symbols can be affected by the transducers dynamic during the transient period of these devices especially when the OFDM symbol length is comparatively short. A small cyclic prefix (CP) method is proposed to overcome this problem without much loss of the throughput and the bandwidth efficiency. The small CP, with the length just longer than the transient response of the transducer, can eliminate the ICI problem. The theoretical analysis and the simulation results show the efficiency of the method. ©2009 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 9th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technology, ISCIT 2009
Pages1173-1177
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event2009 9th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technology, ISCIT 2009 - Icheon, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 28 Sept 200930 Sept 2009

Conference

Conference2009 9th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technology, ISCIT 2009
PlaceKorea, Republic of
CityIcheon
Period28/09/0930/09/09

Research Keywords

  • Effects of transducers dynamic
  • Inter-carrier interference
  • OFDM
  • Underwater acoustic communications

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