Apparatus, systems and methods for enhanced detection, synchronization and online Doppler scale estimation for underwater acoustic communications

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8467269
APP PUB NO 20110013487A1
SERIAL NO

12752239

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Advantageous online and/or real-time OFDM-based underwater acoustic (UWA) apparatus, systems and methods are provided according to the present disclosure. The apparatus, systems and methods employ a receiver with a bank of parallel branches, with each branch having a self-correlator matched to a different waveform scaling factor. A detection is declared when any of the branches leads to a correlation metric larger than a pre-defined threshold. The branch with the largest metric yields a Doppler scale estimate and a coarse synchronization point. The proposed apparatus, systems and methods use one OFDM preamble, thereby avoiding the need to buffer the whole data packet before data demodulation and enabling online and/or real-time operation. Thus, the disclosed apparatus, systems and methods are advantageously applicable to UWA communications.

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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT438 WHITNEY ROAD STORRS CT 06269

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Berger, Christian Pittsburgh, US 56 334
Mason, Sean Nashua, US 10 61
Willett, Peter Coventry, US 5 198
Zhou, Shengli Mansfield, US 14 1127

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