Application of an underwater communication channel simulator to performance evaluation

Since the sea-going experiment is expensive, the channel simulator for an underwater acoustic communication (UAC) can be useful in evaluating the performance of an UAC system. In this paper, VirTEX (Virtual Time series EXperiment) is applied to the UAC algorithm. In order to examine the practicality of VirTEX, the statistics of the bit error rate is obtained from sea-going experiments, and compared with the simulated result using VirTEX. The result and discussion are presented.