The ROBLINKS underwater acoustic communication experiments

conference paper
Within the EU-MAST III project ROBLINKS waveforms and algorithms have been developed to establish robust underwater acoustic communication links with high data rates ín shallow water. To evaluate the signalling schemes a wide range of experiments has been performed during a sea trial that has been held in May 1999 in the North Sea, off rhe Dutch coast. The resulting data set consists of recordings of the newly developed waveforms, of more conventional communication signals for comparison, and of signals to probe the acoustic channel. Environmental data have also been collected to analyze and understand the propagation conditions during the transmissions. The most interesting and illustrative part of the data set will be made available for further analysis after the end of the ROBLINKS project
TNO Identifier
95350
Publisher
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Source title
Proceedings of the 5th European conference on underwater acoustics, ECUA 2000, 10-13 July 2000, Villeurbanne, France. Vol.I
Editor(s)
Zakharia, M.E.
Place of publication
Luxembourg
Pages
555-560