Communications – electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices – Underwater system – Telemetering
Patent
1997-04-16
1998-07-21
Pihulic, Daniel T.
Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
Underwater system
Telemetering
H04B 1100
Patent
active
057843392
ABSTRACT:
A communication and position determining device for use in an underwater communication and position determining system wherein the device transmits a sequence of one or more data words, wherein each data word includes a plurality of data bits transmitted in parallel as a corresponding number of concurrently transmitted signals, each of which occupies a different frequency band. The signals have waveforms selected from a pair of fade resistant waveforms that can be discriminated from one another, to represent binary data and the frequency bands are separated from one another by guard bands having widths sufficient to prevent intersymbol interference between the signals representing the data bits of a data word due, for example, to doppler and phase/frequency shifting, and successive data words are separated sequentially in time by intervals having a duration sufficient to prevent intersymbol interference between the signals of successive data words due to multipath reverberation. A single one of the signals of a data word is used for position determination wherein two devices each determine the bearing to one another from the bearing of the signals received from the other and a round trip propagation time determined from the time delay in transmitting an interrogation data word, a first response data word and a second response data word. Various alternative implementations of the invention are described.
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Hogan William
Woodsum Harvey C.
Ocean Vision Technology, Inc.
Pihulic Daniel T.
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