Affiliation:
1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22188, Republic of Korea
2. Infomation and Communication Engineering, Hoseo University, Asan 31499, Republic of Korea
Abstract
This paper presents an underwater biomimetic covert acoustic communication system that achieves high covertness and a high data rate by mimicking dolphin group whistles. The proposed method uses combined time–frequency shift keying modulation with continuous varying carrier frequency modulation, which mitigates the interference between two overlapping multiple whistles while maintaining a high data rate. The data rate and bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed method were compared with conventional underwater covert communication through an additive white Gaussian noise channel, a modeled underwater channel, and practical ocean experiments. For the covertness test, the similarity of the proposed multiple whistles was compared with the real dolphin group whistles using the mean opinion score test. As a result, the proposed method demonstrated a higher data rate, better BER performance, and large covertness to the real dolphin group whistles.
Funder
Inha University Research Program
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering