Underwater acoustic signal processing aims to reconstruct the shallow water acoustic channel from both direct arrival and delayed multipath reflections. This enables accurate acoustic communications in shallow water, such as between underwater autonomous vehicles (UAVs), which are essential for coastal surveillance and other applications. In this work, we take a previously implemented algorithm...

Shielding an object to be undetectable is an important issue for engineering applications. Cloaking is the ultimate shielding example, routing waves around an object without mutual interaction, demonstrated as possible in principle by transformation and metamaterial techniques. Example applications have been successfully designed and validated for electromagnetic wave, thin plate flexural wave,...

Knowledge of the noise probability density function (PDF) is central in signal detection problems, not only for optimum receiver structures but also for processing procedures such as power normalization. Unfortunately, the statistical knowledge must be acquired since the classical assumption of a Gaussian noise PDF is often not valid in underwater acoustics. In this report, we study statistical...

-The paper introduces LinkQuest Inc.'s cutting-edge high speed underwater acoustic modems. LinkQuest Inc. combined recent advances in high speed digital communication with broadband underwater acoustics in the development of the high speed modems. Advanced Broadband Spread Spectrum Technology results in dramatically increased data rate and robustness and decrease in power consumption. The modem...

The study of Underwater Wireless Networks as a research field has grown significantly in recent years offering a multitude of proposal to resolve the communication between the nodes and protocols for information exchange networks. Acoustics has been used by nature for years to communicate in the underwater environment using it as a language, dolphins and whales for instance are able to use it t...

Nowadays underwater communication plays a vital role in applications from commercial extends to military purposes. Present underwater communication systems involve the transmission of information in the form of sound, electromagnetic (EM), or optical waves. All these techniques has their own benefits and limitations. Acoustic communication is the most versatile and widely used technique in unde...