Research Article

Data Selective Rake Reception for Underwater Acoustic Communication in Strong Multipath Interference

Table 2

Simulation parameters.

ModulationQPSK-OFDM
Sampling frequency [kHz]200
Center frequency [kHz]50
Frequency band [kHz]40 to 60
FFT size1024
Number of data subcarriers1024
OFDM symbol length [ms]51.2
GI [ms]12.8
Number of OFDM symbols10
Number of training OFDM symbols2
OFDM frame length [ms]768
OFDM frame data size [bytes]1280
FECConvolutional coding & Viterbi decoding
Coding rate0.5
Number of antennas1 (TX)/4 (RX)
Number of OFDM rake fingers64
Timing synchronizationPerfect
Number of evaluated OFDM frames100