Modeling the Acoustic Channel for Simulation Studies
Abstract
Underwater acoustic communications, especially from a single point-to-point link perspective, have been studied extensively in the past few decades. Underwater networking issues have begun to attract the interest of researchers as well, and represent a fertile research area which can be expected to grow in the future. Bringing the study of acoustic communications systems to the networking level has the potential to open up new directions and to provide a means to make them much more powerful and useful. Many military and naval applications can be expected to greatly benefit from this paradigm shift. The main goal of the proposed work was to deepen our understanding of the behavior of the underwater acoustic channel and develop channel modeling techniques to enable more detailed studies at the networking level. To this aim, we started from existing data sets for point-to-point communications, in order to try and extract fundamental behaviors and model them in a way suitable for the simulation of more complex systems. This includes the integration of existing (as well as new) acoustic propagation modeling techniques into network simulators, the search for statistical models based on measured data, as well as the development of trace-based simulation techniques, and their validation and assessment in representative application scenarios.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA575145
Entities
People
- Michele Zorzi
Organizations
- University of Padua