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INTRODUCTION
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consideration for underwater communication researchers
[6]. This is particularly true for AUV purposes, where the
power carry on-board is circumscribed and power
conservation is essential [7]. With lower power
consumption the AUV is able to run its assigned mission
with longer operation time. Besides that, the present AUV
applications are usually paired with a surface vessel. Hence,
there is no requirement for air-to-water interface issue,
which satisfies the limitation of acoustic property [8].
In the air channel characteristic is different from the
underwater channel [9]. The response of the medium with
respect to the acoustic wave input could be simulated,
whereby the acoustic wave propagation in the underwater
channel is mathematically modeled. The carries signals of
the frequency response in the medium with the minimum
transmission power and with minimum noise effect may be
used to define the effective carrier frequency [10].
III.
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have large amount of transmission loss that reduces the
frequency band efficiency. Due to the inefficient of low
frequency range, the ambient noise from a turbulence is not
included in the simulation. Frequency range between 1 kHz
to 100 kHz is emphasized on the simulation.
The noise PSD simulation generated by shipping
activities had shown the density distribution as in the Fig. 3.
Frequency below 1 kHz had a significant effect of the
changes of shipping activities with the factor, s from 0 to 1.
Whereby, the low frequency range is not affected by the
shipping activity. The shipping activities noise has also
shown a minimum curve at frequency around 20 to 50 kHz.
The Fig. 4 shows the ambient noise Nw(f) caused by wind
from a typical wind speed ranging from 0 to 50 m/s. From
the simulation, the wind effect is proportion to the wind
speed at frequency region from 100 Hz to about 30 kHz.
However, the wind has a slight influence on frequency more
than 30 kHz and invariant effect at low frequency. Although
the effect is small at high frequency, but when the wind
speed reach 50 m/s the noise PDS is able to reached just
above 60 dB re Pa. Thus, this simulation result suggests
that during SNR study, the wind speed should be set at the
higher range to reflect the worse condition possible. The
next simulation is conducted for the noise generated by
wind speed.
B. Noise Model
Research had shown [11] that the ambient noise in the
ocean can be modeled using four sources: turbulence,
shipping, waves, and thermal noise. Furthermore,
continuous PSD and Gaussian statistics can be used to
describe most of the ambient noise sources. The four noise
empirical formula components yield the PSD in dB re Pa
per Hz according to the function of frequency in kHz [13]:
10logN t f 17 30 log f
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10logN th f 15 20 log f
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N t f N s f N w f N th f
Ship Activities
P / A d , f / N f f
Figure 3. PSD of the ambient noise N(f) [dB re Pa] for low to high
shipping activity.
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Frequency [hz]
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Figure 4. PSD of the ambient noise N(f) [dB re Pa] for wind speed from 0
m/s to 50m/s.
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In both wind and shipping noise activities, PSD had
shown a minimum effect at frequency range from 10 kHz to
100 kHz. This frequency band is also the favour frequency
range for acoustic communication development. The
simulation present in the Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 is conducted on
the SNR by studying the two main noise sources
contributing to frequency range of 10 kHz to 100 kHz. The
Fig. 5 shows the simulation of the SNR versus the frequency
and distance. The distance is set from 0 to 2000 meter as the
operating range of the proposed communication system. To
illustrate the significance of optimum frequency variation
with respect to the distance the distance is incorporated in
the simulation.
Maximum values are observed at different frequency for
every distance as in the Fig. 5, and the Fig. 7 is the plane
view of SNR plot. The optimum frequency drifts between 25
kHz to 40 kHz with respect to the range of 0 to 2000 meter.
A more detail simulation is conducted to plot the optimum
frequency versus distance. As the result, the Fig. 6
illustrates when distance increases, the optimum frequency
decreases. The selection of optimum frequency is best based
on the dominant operational depth of the AUV. However, if
the operating depth is uncertain, an average point can be
obtained as the optimum frequency. With this assumption,
the average optimum frequency is found to be 31.5 kHz.
Figure 7. SNR with pratical spreading (k=2) is used for the path loss.
Moderate shipping g activity (s=0. 5) and no wind (w=0) are used for the
noise PSD.
V.
Figure 5. Channel SNR with pratical spreading (k=2) is used for the path
loss. Moderate shipping g activity (s=0. 5) and no wind (w=0) are used for
the noise PSD.
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Figure 8. Doppler Effect
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CONCLUSION
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