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OTFS for Underwater Acoustic Communications: Practical System Design and Channel Estimation

  • Su Hang
  • , Wei Li*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Peng Cheng Laboratory

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Abstract

Recently, orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS), a two-dimensional modulation technique designed in delay-Doppler domain, has received significant attention. Generally, OTFS converts signals in the time-varying and doubly-spread channels into the slow time-varying and sparse channels in delay-Doppler domain. Compared with OFDM system, OTFS is efficient to alleviate the inter-carrier-interference (ICI) for the time-varying and doubly-spread channels. This fact motivates us the use of OTFS in the time-varying and doubly-spread underwater acoustic (UWA) channels. In this paper, we design a practical OTFS system for the UWA communication. To alleviate the Doppler effect in UWA communication, a Doppler compensation step is proposed for the UWA OTFS system. Moreover, we provide a practical channel estimation for the UWA OTFS system to avoid the problem caused by fractional Doppler shifts. We demonstrate performance of the proposed OTFS system. The simulation results show that the UWA OTFS scheme outperforms the OFDM in UWA channels.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665468091
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event2022 OCEANS Hampton Roads, OCEANS 2022 - Hampton Roads, United States
Duration: 17 Oct 202220 Oct 2022

Publication series

NameOceans Conference Record (IEEE)
Volume2022-October
ISSN (Print)0197-7385

Conference

Conference2022 OCEANS Hampton Roads, OCEANS 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHampton Roads
Period17/10/2220/10/22

Keywords

  • OTFS
  • channel estimation
  • delay-Doppler domain
  • underwater acoustic channels

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