Experimental assessment of different receiver structures for underwater acoustic communications over multipath channels.

Underwater communication channels are often complicated, and in particular multipath propagation may cause intersymbol interference (ISI). This paper addresses how to remove ISI, and evaluates the performance of three different receiver structures and their implementations. Using real data collected in a high-frequency (10-14 kHz) field experiment, the receiver structures are evaluated by off-line data processing.

An acoustic-logging transmission-network model.

The acoustic logging process can be described as a signal transmission system with a corresponding transmission network model. This model gives the relations between driving-voltage signal, the electrical-acoustic conversion at the source, acoustic properties of the propagation media (borehole fluid and formation around borehole), the pressure response in the borehole, the acoustic-electrical conversion at the receiver and recorded logging signal.