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Communications and Network, 2011, 3, 99-112 doi:10.4236/cn.2011.32012 Published Online May 2011 (/journal/cn) Design and Simulation of a Secure and Robust Underwater Acoustic Communication System in the Persian Gulf 1 2 2 Abdollah Doosti Aref , Mohammad Javad Jannati , Vahid Tabataba Vakili 1 Electrical Engineering Department, Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran Isfahan, Iran 2Electrical Engineering Department, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran E-mail : doosti.aref@, {mjannati, vakily}@iust.ac.ir Received March 12, 2011; revised April 11, 2011; accepted April 19, 2011 Abstract In recent years, underwater acoustic (UWA) communications have received much attention as their applica- tions have begun to shift from military toward commercial. Digital communications through UWA channels differ substantially from those in other media, such as radio channels, due to severe signal degradations caused by multipath propagation and high temporal and spatial variability of the channel conditions. This paper describes a project designed, based on the results obtained from extensive laboratory and field experi- ments on sound speed profile in different depths of the Persian Gulf, to investigate and demonstrate an un- derwater acoustic communication system. Transmitted data are acoustic signals to which for more safety in transmission and low frequency bandwidth, Rivest cipher cryptography algorithm and linear prediction cod- ing are applied, respectively. In transmitter, Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) signaling is employed to make efficient use of the available channel bandwidth. In the channel, a comprehensive mod