Sea Experimental for Compressive Sensing-Based Sparse Channel Estimation of Underwater Acoustic TDS-OFDM System

Due to the high spectral efficiency (SE) and fast synchronization, the time-domain synchronization orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) system has gotten much more attraction of researchers as compared to cyclic-prefix (CP) and zero padding (ZP) OFDM in terrestrial as well as underwater acoustic communication. Inter-block interference (IBI) degrades the TDS-OFDM performance due to its long-delay multiple channels. In TDS-OFDM, dual pseudo-random noise (DPN) sequences utilize two PN sequences as a guard interval (GI) after every data block to cope with interference from the OFDM data block to the next PN sequence resulting in compromising the energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency. We have proposed compressed sensing-based technique compressive sensing matching pursuit (CoSaMP), orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP), and look-ahead and backtracking OMP (LABOMP) for TDS-OFDM over the real-time underwater channel in this paper. Moreover, prior to estimating the channel, the received PN sequence is considered in the time domain to compensate for the Doppler shift of the UWA channel. The real-time data experiment has been initially conducted for testing in a water tank in our laboratory. Furthermore, it has been tested on the sea for long communications under the water at the Wuyuan sea area in Xiamen, China. Simulations and experimental results evident that the compressed sensing techniques have better performance over the conventional TDS-OFDM and DPN-TDS-OFDM, even LABOMP outperform OMP and CoSaMP in terms of bit-error-rate (BER), SE, and EE.