Research Article

An Acoustic OFDM System with Symbol-by-Symbol Doppler Compensation for Underwater Communication

Table 1

Our system parameters.

Parameters Value

TX-RX elements1 TX/4 RX transducer
Sampling frequency96000 Hz
TX center frequency24000 Hz
Band width7593 Hz
FFT size1024
OFDM symbol length  excluded GI10.67 ms
GI length 0.5
Sub carrier spacing93.75 Hz
Number of subcarrier81
Modulation 16QAM64QAM
Turbo code rate 1/21/3
Space among transducers at RX side 10 cm