《Low Complexity Adaptive Equalizers for Underwater Acoustic Communications》.pdfVIP

China Ocean Eng., Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 529 – 540 © 2014 Chinese Ocean Engineering Society DOI 10.1007/s13344-014-0043-2, ISSN 0890-5487 Low Complexity Adaptive Equalizers for Underwater Acoustic Communications Masoumeh SOFLAEI and Paeiz AZMI1 Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (Received 3 March 2012; received revised form 26 March 2013; accepted 8 September 2013) ABSTRACT Interference signals due to scattering from surface and reflecting from bottom is one of the most important problems of reliable communications in shallow water channels. To solve this problem, one of the best suggested ways is to use adaptive equalizers. Convergence rate and misadjustment error in adaptive algorithms play important roles in adaptive equalizer performance. In this paper, affine projection algorithm (APA), selective regressor APA(SR-APA), family of selective partial update (SPU) algorithms, family of set-membership (SM) algorithms and selective partial update selective regressor APA (SPU-SR-APA) are compared with conventional algorithms such as the least mean square (LMS) in underwater acoustic communications. We apply experimental data from the Strait of Hormuz for demonstrating the efficiency of the proposed methods over shallow water channel. We observe that the values of the steady-state mean square error (MSE) of SR-APA, SPU-APA, SPU-normalized least mean square (SPU-NLMS), SPU-SR-APA, SM-APA and SM-NLMS algorithms decrease in comparison with the LMS algorithm. Also these algorithms have better convergence rates than LMS type algorithm. Key words: underwater acoustic communication; affine projec