Shallow-water seabed reverberation presents a critical disturbance in acoustic propagation,affecting the target detection performance of monostatic sonar.This paper proposes a novel seabed reverberation model integrat...Shallow-water seabed reverberation presents a critical disturbance in acoustic propagation,affecting the target detection performance of monostatic sonar.This paper proposes a novel seabed reverberation model integrating Gaussian beam tracing with seabed scattering physics.The model synthesizes time-domain reverberation signals by superimposing scattering signals received across multiple propagation paths.It accurately resolves scattering signals along distinct paths and enables simulation of reverberation under diverse shallow-water environments by adjusting the marine parameters.Furthermore,we model the seabed reverberation signals in the time domain and the space domain for a cylindrical transceiver array,and provide a detailed statistical characterization of the simulated seabed reverberation signals.Finally,shallow-water seabed reverberation experiments were conducted with a cylindrical transceiver array.Comparisons between shallow-water seabed reverberation measurements and simulation estimates at various sites and transceiver depths demonstrate that the proposed seabed reverberation model can efficiently simulate shallow-water seabed reverberation.展开更多
Traditional underwater acoustic communication networks(UACNs)generally use omnidirectional transmission technology that causes a large number of data-packet collisions,thus resulting in low network throughput and high...Traditional underwater acoustic communication networks(UACNs)generally use omnidirectional transmission technology that causes a large number of data-packet collisions,thus resulting in low network throughput and high end-to-end delays.Compared with omnidirectional transmission technology,directional technology only sends and receives data packets in a specified direction.This can significantly reduce the probability of collisions and improve network performance.However,it also causes a deafness problem,which occurs when the sending node sends a data packet to the receiving node but the receiving node is unable to reply to the sender,because its antenna beam is closed.To resolve this issue,this study proposes a collision classification media access control(CC-MAC)protocol for UACNs.With this protocol,the underwater acoustic channel is divided into two subchannels,and the nodes transmit corresponding data types on them.The sending node can estimate the current status of the receiving node(i.e.,no collision,normal collision,deafness)according to the type of the data packet received and the sub-channel it arrived on,and it can choose correct options to improve network efficiency.Finally,we verify the performance of CC-MAC via simulations,showing that the protocol achieved higher network throughput and lower end-toend delays.展开更多
基金The Youth Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.12304507the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,China under contract No.2024A1515011512+2 种基金the Stable Supporting Fund of Acoustic Science and Technology Laboratory under contract No.JCKYS2025SSJS010the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under contract No.20720240108the Special Project for Marine Economy Development of Guangdong Province,China under contract No.GDNRC2023-47.
文摘Shallow-water seabed reverberation presents a critical disturbance in acoustic propagation,affecting the target detection performance of monostatic sonar.This paper proposes a novel seabed reverberation model integrating Gaussian beam tracing with seabed scattering physics.The model synthesizes time-domain reverberation signals by superimposing scattering signals received across multiple propagation paths.It accurately resolves scattering signals along distinct paths and enables simulation of reverberation under diverse shallow-water environments by adjusting the marine parameters.Furthermore,we model the seabed reverberation signals in the time domain and the space domain for a cylindrical transceiver array,and provide a detailed statistical characterization of the simulated seabed reverberation signals.Finally,shallow-water seabed reverberation experiments were conducted with a cylindrical transceiver array.Comparisons between shallow-water seabed reverberation measurements and simulation estimates at various sites and transceiver depths demonstrate that the proposed seabed reverberation model can efficiently simulate shallow-water seabed reverberation.
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFC0308500)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61901273,11774074,61771152,U1806201 and 11974090)+1 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China(No.YQ2019F002)Acoustic Science and Technology Laboratory,Science and Technology on Underwater Information and Control Laboratory,and by the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship by CAST.
文摘Traditional underwater acoustic communication networks(UACNs)generally use omnidirectional transmission technology that causes a large number of data-packet collisions,thus resulting in low network throughput and high end-to-end delays.Compared with omnidirectional transmission technology,directional technology only sends and receives data packets in a specified direction.This can significantly reduce the probability of collisions and improve network performance.However,it also causes a deafness problem,which occurs when the sending node sends a data packet to the receiving node but the receiving node is unable to reply to the sender,because its antenna beam is closed.To resolve this issue,this study proposes a collision classification media access control(CC-MAC)protocol for UACNs.With this protocol,the underwater acoustic channel is divided into two subchannels,and the nodes transmit corresponding data types on them.The sending node can estimate the current status of the receiving node(i.e.,no collision,normal collision,deafness)according to the type of the data packet received and the sub-channel it arrived on,and it can choose correct options to improve network efficiency.Finally,we verify the performance of CC-MAC via simulations,showing that the protocol achieved higher network throughput and lower end-toend delays.
