Towards Open Underwater Acoustic Channel Models & Tools for Acoustic Communication (ACOMMS) Waveform-Receiver Performance Assessment
conference paper
The development and adoption of underwater acoustic communication standards has long been hampered by the lack of agreed, standardized, acoustic channel models to facilitate comparative waveform testing in a controlled, fair and physically realistic manner. The shortfall has been recognized at NATO level, and a research task group (RTG) initiative is presently underway (IST216) to develop standardized means to performance assess emerging, open (and closed) acoustic waveform designs. This paper reviews the objectives of IST216, the challenges posed by the task, and opportunities presented by time-varying-impulse response (TVIR) based acoustic channel models, capturing macroscale (multipath) and microscale (forward scatter) channel effects in conjunction with flexible means for noise addition in sound pressure level terms. © 2024 IEEE
TNO Identifier
1006739
ISBN
979-833154251-1
Publisher
IEEE
Source title
7th Underwater Communications and Networking Conference, UComms 2024
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