Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) equipped with acoustic modems are currently one of the important means of obtaining underwater environment data such as sounds and images. They rely on high-speed underwater acoustic (UWA) communication technology for data transmission tasks. Orthogonal chirp division multiplexing (OCDM) is a multicarrier method based on chirp spread spectrum (CSS) which has better reliability in frequency selective fading channels than orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). In this work, we combine index modulation (IM) and propose an OCDM-IM system that provides faster data rates when it activates the same number of subchirps as OCDM. On the other hand, it activates fewer subchirps when the data rate is the same, so it has better anti-interference capability. The simulation results under a measured UWA channel and random channels and the experimental results show that OCDM-IM has a better bit-error rate (BER) performance than that of OCDM and OFDM-IM systems when the subchirps are not fully loaded. In particular, when a small number of subchirps are activated, OCDM-IM is able to provide up to 2x bit rate with more than 5 dB improvement in BER performance. Our simulation and experimental results also show that IM has much better reliability than constellation mapping when Doppler effect is considered. Therefore, OCDM-IM is more suitable for the communication of AUVs.


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    Title :

    OCDM With Index Modulation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Communication


    Contributors:
    Jia, Zhenyu (author) / Zhang, Rongxin (author) / Chen, Zhong (author) / Yuan, Fei (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2025-04-01


    Size :

    7709506 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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