Project goals

• Establish access to - and gain experience in the use of an advanced underwater acoustical propagation model
• Establish an experimental communication link and carry out propagation measurements
• Identify and evaluate communication capabilities

Organising

Working parties

• SINTEF ICT departments [Acoustics, Communication systems]
• NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) [Dep. of Electronics and Telecommunications]

External project contacts

• Norwegian Defence Research Establishment - Horten
• Institute of marine research - Bergen
• Kongsberg Maritime - Horten

Acoustic channel modelling

Communication capabilites limited by the acoustical channel

• Range Capacity (Bits/sec/Hz)
• Receiver complexity
• Energy consumptions

PlaneRay software for modelling statical channel parameters

Software developed at NTNU by Jens Hovem

Experimental communciation link

Measurements Verification of channel modelling Communication analysis Platform for further work PhD, Master degree SINTEF projects

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