Title
High-rate ultrasonic communication through metallic barriers using MIMO-OFDM techniques
Abstract
This paper presents methods to achieve high data transmission rates through metallic barriers using ultrasonic signalling techniques. Due to the frequency selective nature of acoustic-electric channels, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is employed which achieves high spectral efficiency. Multiple parallel channels are used to further increase data rates. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques are used to reduce crosstalk that would otherwise greatly limit performance and achievable data rates. Several crosstalk mitigation techniques are investigated and their theoretical capacity performances are determined for the general case of A transmitters and A receivers (i.e. A×A MIMO). A physical MIMO acoustic-electric channel array is formed using a 40 mm (1.575 in) thick steel barrier with seven pairs of 4 MHz nominal resonant frequency piezoelectric disk transducers, each with 10 mm (0.394 in) diameter. To investigate the effects of crosstalk, the transducers are closely spaced, and each transmitter-receiver pair is coaxially aligned on opposing sides of the metallic barrier. It is shown that, with the use of crosstalk mitigation techniques, the aggregate multichannel capacity performance scales linearly with the number of channels used and approaches 700 Mbps at high average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) levels. Finally, the use of bit-loading techniques are explored using several levels of rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), and the achievable data rates are compared with each other and to the multichannel theoretical capacity performances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415837
MILCOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
mimo communication,ofdm modulation,channel capacity,crosstalk,military communication,piezoelectric transducers,radio receivers,radio transmitters,telecommunication signalling,wireless channels,mimo-ofdm techniques,bit-loading techniques,crosstalk mitigation techniques,frequency 4 mhz,frequency selective channels,high data transmission rates,high-rate ultrasonic communication,metallic barriers,multichannel capacity,multichannel theoretical capacity performances,multiple parallel channels,multiple-input multiple-output techniques,nominal resonant frequency piezoelectric disk transducers,orthogonal frequency division multiplexing,physical mimo acoustic-electric channel array,rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation,size 10 mm,size 40 mm,spectral efficiency,transmitter-receiver pair,ultrasonic signalling techniques
MIMO-OFDM,Transmitter,Quadrature amplitude modulation,Data transmission,Computer science,QAM,MIMO,Electronic engineering,Channel capacity,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2155-7578
978-1-4673-1729-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
j d ashdown110.38
gary j saulnier250.96
t j lawry310.38
Kyle R. Wilt453.71
Henry A. Scarton571.70