@inproceedings{ed522a02c0994e768e6927d7769b3679,
title = "Information theoretic performance of cooperative underwater acoustic communications",
abstract = "Cooperative communication is considered as a major enabling technique to meet the demanding performance requirements of future underwater acoustic (UWA) communication systems. In this paper, we investigate the information theoretic performance of a cooperative UWA system to provide insight into the fundamental performance limits imposed by underwater acoustic channels. We first propose an approximate statistical model for the non-stationary ambient noise. The proposed model allows mathematical tractability and is a good fit for most operating frequencies in practical systems. Based on this ambient noise model, we investigate the outage performance of a precoded cooperative multicarrier UWA system with amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying. Our numerical results for cooperative UWA systems demonstrate significant performance gains over point-to-point systems. The impact of several system and environmental parameters on the performance is further demonstrated.",
author = "Suhail Al-Dharrab and Murat Uysal",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139766",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781457713484",
series = "IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1562--1566",
booktitle = "2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC'11",
address = "United States",
note = "22nd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2011 ; Conference date: 11-09-2011 Through 14-09-2011",
}