Title
Adaptive and Efficient Nonlinear Channel Equalization for Underwater Acoustic Communication
Abstract
We investigate underwater acoustic (UWA) channel equalization and introduce hierarchical and adaptive nonlinear (piecewise linear) channel equalization algorithms that are highly efficient and provide significantly improved bit error rate (BER) performance. Due to the high complexity of conventional nonlinear equalizers and poor performance of linear ones, to equalize highly difficult underwater acoustic channels, we employ piecewise linear equalizers. However, in order to achieve the performance of the best piecewise linear model, we use a tree structure to hierarchically partition the space of the received signal. Furthermore, the equalization algorithm should be completely adaptive, since due to the highly non-stationary nature of the underwater medium, the optimal mean squared error (MSE) equalizer as well as the best piecewise linear equalizer changes in time. To this end, we introduce an adaptive piecewise linear equalization algorithm that not only adapts the linear equalizer at each region but also learns the complete hierarchical structure with a computational complexity only polynomial in the number of nodes of the tree. Furthermore, our algorithm is constructed to directly minimize the final squared error without introducing any ad-hoc parameters. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithms through highly realistic experiments performed on practical field data as well as accurately simulated underwater acoustic channels.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.phycom.2017.06.001
Physical Communication
Keywords
Field
DocType
Underwater acoustic communication,Nonlinear channel equalization,Piecewise linear equalization,Adaptive filter,Self-organizing tree
Mathematical optimization,Equalization (audio),Underwater acoustic communication,Computer science,Control theory,Communication channel,Mean squared error,Tree structure,Piecewise linear function,Computational complexity theory,Bit error rate
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
24
1874-4907
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
27
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
dariush kari100.34
N. Denizcan Vanli2368.13
Suleyman S. Kozat321215.94