Capacity bounds and power allocation for underwater acoustic relay channels with ISI

  • Authors:
  • Chiranjib Choudhuri;Urbashi Mitra

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Underwater acoustics channels suffer from a variety of effects including frequency selective fading, range dependent effective bandwidth and time-variation[1]. Herein, throughput capacity bounds and associated power allocation schemes for an underwater acoustic relay network are examined. Prior work on wireless radio channels have shown that channels with such characteristics are non-degraded. The implication of non-degradedness is that, typically, capacity cannot be evaluated exactly. Prior work on the capacity of degraded relay channels with ISI [2] is utilized to develop lower and upper bounds on the throughput capacity. Capacity bounds for channel state information (CSI) only at the receiver and CSI at both transmitter and receiver are studied. Practical constraints on transmission/reception duplexing at the relay node are also taken into account while deriving bounds. Achievability schemes are compared with the rates achievable via direct transmission and two hop communication to conclude that coopeartive relaying increase the rates significantly.