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Development of Theories and Systems in Underwater Communications and Networks
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Development of Theories and Systems in Underwater Communications and Networks

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 May 2025 | Viewed by 800

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jiang Zhu

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Ocean College Zhejiang University, Zhoushan, China
Interests: underwater acoustic communications; signal estimation and detection
Dr. Lei Wan

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School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Interests: underwater acoustic communications; wireless communications and signal processing
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Dr. Yishan Su

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School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Interests: underwater acoustic sensor networks; secure underwater acoustic communication
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Underwater communications and networks are key for human beings’ exploration and exploitation of the ocean. In recent years, we have witnessed rapid development in related areas. This Special Issue will compile recent advancements in theory and systems development for underwater communications and networks, for which purpose we present a platform and forum to disseminate state-of-the-art research and trends. Works introducing new concepts, methods, systems, and experimental results are all welcome to be submitted.

The Special Issue topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Underwater communications based on acoustic, light, and other media;
  • Underwater networks;
  • Mud pulse telemetry;
  • Newly developed systems in underwater communications and networks;
  • New experimental results in underwater communications and networks;
  • AIfor underwater communications and networks;
  • Securityin underwater communications and networks.

Dr. Jiang Zhu
Dr. Lei Wan
Dr. Yishan Su
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • underwater communications
  • underwater networks
  • mud pulse telemetry
  • development of underwater information systems
  • experimental results

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A Sub-Channel Spatial Homogeneity-Based Channel Estimation Method for Underwater Optical Densely Arrayed MIMO Systems
by Guojin Peng, Hongbin Qiu, Yanlong Li and Junru Wang
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2024, 12(11), 2030; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12112030 - 10 Nov 2024
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The limited surface area and structural constraints of small underwater communication devices necessitate a dense placement of transmitting and receiving array elements in optical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The compact layout leads to the formation of sub-channels that exhibit notable spatial correlation and [...] Read more.
The limited surface area and structural constraints of small underwater communication devices necessitate a dense placement of transmitting and receiving array elements in optical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The compact layout leads to the formation of sub-channels that exhibit notable spatial correlation and a tendency toward homogeneity. Although sub-channel spatial homogeneity (SSH) may diminish the communication capacity of MIMO systems, it provides a significant advantage by reducing the pilot overhead. In this study, we exploit the inherent SSH and the natural time-domain sparsity of channel impulse response (CIR) in the underwater optical densely arrayed MIMO (UODA-MIMO) system to propose an innovative SSH-based channel estimation (SSH-CE) method. We model the underwater optical CIR at Gbaud rates and integrate it with SSH characteristics. This approach transforms the reconstruction targets of compressive sensing (CS) from conventional CIR samples to prior CIR model parameters and the fitting residuals of the homogeneous sub-channels, reducing the pilot overhead. The simulation results of photon tracing for UODA-MIMO sub-channels in turbid harbor water indicate a monotonic, exponential decay in CIR at Gbaud rates, with transmission delays exceeding 5 nanoseconds for distances over 8 m. Moreover, the correlation coefficients among sub-channels reach a minimum of 0.975, confirming the presence of SSH in UODA-MIMO systems. In comparison to existing CS methods that rely on known sparsity, sparsity adaptation, and the structural sparsity of MIMO channels, the SSH-CE method achieves a lower degree of sparsity in reconstruction targets and a reduced lower bound for pilot requirements under the SPARK criterion. Specifically, the SSH-CE method achieves a reduction in the pilot overhead for reconstructing Nt sub-channels of K-sparse to 2Nt irrespective of CIR residual compensation. Full article
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