A technical survey on underwater communication

  • Authors

    • Saliq Afaque H Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    • Vishal Dasari Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    • T K Ramesh Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    2018-02-27
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.9502
  • Underwater Communication, Acoustic, Noise, Doppler Effect, Network Layers, Modems.

  • 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 & Technology, 7(1), 198-203. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.9502