Simulation and rapid prototyping environment for underwater acoustic communications: reconfigurable modem

Acoustic communications and networking research depends heavily on validation of the proposed algorithms through experiments. These experiments are usually carried out by off-line processing of data recorded in real channels. In this paper, we present a new simulation and rapid prototyping environment called the reconfigurable modem (rModem). The rModem can model acoustic communication and networking systems, simulate the system behavior, and generate C code based on the system model that can be run on a DSP board for real-time experimental studies.