A technical survey on underwater communication

  • Authors

    • Saliq Afaque H Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    • Vishal Dasari Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    • T K Ramesh Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.9502

    Received date: February 11, 2018

    Accepted date: February 19, 2018

    Published date: February 27, 2018

  • Underwater Communication, Acoustic, Noise, Doppler Effect, Network Layers, Modems.

  • Abstract

    The world’s pace has elevated technology to a higher pinnacle in the field of communication, yet the research in underwater communication is progressing in a slow traverse due to its compound barriers. Underwater communication is one of the unique and challenging fields in communication engineering in the case of both designing and communication. It is limited by several factors like the multipath channel and frequency which is limiting the application of underwater communication. An appropriate choice of modulation will enable the device to give better data rates. As every communication needs higher data rates, appropriate devices must be coupled with multiple access methods to make it efficient and reliable. The paper is a plot of the data surveyed on underwater communication which combines of major challenges associated with underwater applications and the approaches to mitigate some of these challenges is data.

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    Afaque H, S., Dasari, V., & Ramesh, T. K. (2018). A technical survey on underwater communication. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 7(1), 198-203. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.9502