Immanuel Rajkumar

Work place: Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

E-mail: imman047@gmail.com

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Biography

Immanuel Rajkumar, born in 1977. M.E. and Assistanr professor in Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology from India. His main research interests include Internet of Things.

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Impact of Equalizer Step Size in Underwater Acoustic Communication Channel

By Krishnamoorthy Raghavan Narasu Immanuel Rajkumar Jerry Alexander Marshiana Devaerakkam

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2021.01.03, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2021

The Underwater Acoustic Channel (UAC) is a time variant channel and its multipath effects create ISI. This is one of the most important obstacles in the UAC channel which reduces the transmission rate. To remove this obstacle, a proper filter has to be designed in the receiver section. In this article, optimal step size for equalizer is computed and compared the results with the known techniques namely Decision Feedback Equalizer with interleave division multiple access (DFE IDMA) and Cyclic Prefix - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CP-OFDM) Equalizer. Channels are modeled using ray tracing methods. The various factors considered are ambient noise, attenuation loss, bottom and surface loss. The overall path loss for channels is computed by summing up the attenuation loss, surface and bottom loss. Simulation results evident that for short range UAC channel, the BER in the order of 10-2 is achieved using proposed methodology with least Eb/No compared to standard DFE method.

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