Adaptive modulation and coding in underwater acoustic communications: a machine learning perspective

Autor: Lihuan Huang, Qunfei Zhang, Weijie Tan, Yue Wang, Lifan Zhang, Chengbing He, Zhi Tian
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol 2020, Iss 1, Pp 1-25 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-1499
DOI: 10.1186/s13638-020-01818-x
Popis: Abstract The increasing demand for exploring and managing the vast marine resources of the planet has underscored the importance of research on advanced underwater acoustic communication (UAC) technologies. However, owing to the severe characteristics of the oceanic environment, underwater acoustic (UWA) propagation experiences nearly the harshest wireless channels in nature. This article resorts to the perspective of machine learning (ML) to cope with the major challenges of adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) design in UACs. First, we present an ML AMC framework for UACs. Then, we propose an attention-aided k-nearest neighbor (A-kNN) algorithm with simplicity and robustness, based on which an ML AMC approach is designed with immunity to channel modeling uncertainty. Leveraging its online learning ability, such A-kNN-based AMC classifier offers salient capabilities of both sustainable self-enhancement and broad applicability to various operation scenarios. Next, aiming at higher implementation efficiency, we take strategies of complexity reduction and present a dimensionality-reduced and data-clustered A-kNN (DRDC-A-kNN) AMC classifier. Finally, we demonstrate that these proposed ML approaches have superior performance over traditional model-based methods by simulations using actual data collected from three lake experiments.
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