Title : 
Design considerations for a pulse position modulation underwater acoustic communications system
         
        
            Author : 
Riter, S. ; Boatright, P.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper develops and discusses engineering design criteria for the realization of a PPM/AM underwater communications system. A number of previously unresolved questions concerning PPM/AM performance in the underwater acoustic channel are answered.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Acoustical engineering; Design engineering; Equations; Fading; Frequency; Narrowband; Pulse measurements; Signal to noise ratio; Sonar; Transmitters;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Engineering in the Ocean Environment - Digest of Technical Papers, 1970 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OCEANS.1970.1160950