• DocumentCode
    3160545
  • Title

    Low cost OFDM based transmitter for underwater acoustic communications

  • Author

    Sarria, David ; Pallares, Oriol ; del Rio-Fernandez, Joaquin ; Manuel-Lazaro, Antoni

  • Author_Institution
    SARTI Res. Group. Electron. Dept., Univ. Politec. de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    10-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    On this work a low cost OFDM transmitter for underwater sensor networks is presented. The transmitter is based on a low power microcontroller that governs a DDS in order to generate the output data -OFDM symbols- avoiding the IFFT computations. This solution represents a new design perspective for the current UWSN -mainly based on FPGAs or DSPs, allowing to reduce the cost, the power consumption and the size of the current transmitters.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; cost reduction; field programmable gate arrays; microcontrollers; power consumption; underwater acoustic communication; wireless sensor networks; DDS; FPGA; OFDM based transmitter; OFDM symbols; UWSN; low power microcontroller; power consumption; underwater acoustic communications; underwater sensor networks; Microcontrollers; OFDM; Power amplifiers; Power demand; Transmitters; Underwater acoustics; Wireless sensor networks; DDS; OFDM; UWSN; acoustic communications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Bergen
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0000-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608135
  • Filename
    6608135