Speex and deep-encoding-based moving underwater acoustic communications

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  • (1.Information Science and Technology College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China;2. Information and Control Engineering College, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266525, China)

Received date: 2023-06-13

  Revised date: 2023-06-13

  Accepted date: 2023-07-22

  Online published: 2023-07-22

Abstract

In order to realize the voice information interaction under the relative motion of the transmitting and receiving nodes, a mobile underwater acoustic voice communication algorithm based on Speex and depth-coding was proposed. Aiming at the problems of limited underwater channel bandwidth, inefficient voice transmission and loss of language information, the Speex algorithm was used to compress the voice information,  improve the transmission efficiency and quality of voice information. For the problems of time-varying multi-channel interference and phase jump in the underwater acoustic channel,by using the deep coding strategy, the low-complexity convolutional coding was used at the bit level to encode information bits and obtain redundant coded bits, to against time-varying multi-path interference. At the symbol level, phase difference-based coding was used to make two phase difference of adjacent symbols as the transmission symbol to eliminating the influence of phase jump. The Speex algorithm achieved a compression rate of 8.53 times, which effectively saved channel bandwidth. Deep-coding effectively solved the problems of multi-path interference and phase jump, and the bit error rate was greatly reduced under the same signal-to-noise ratio. The algorithm was validated by using underwater acoustic communication device (Seatrix Modem)in Jiaozhou Bay under conditions of a communication distance of 5.5 km, a relative motion speed of 0.5 m/s between transceivers,and a communication bandwidth of 4 kHz. The results show the effectiveness of theproposed  algorithm.

Cite this article

SUN Dongxue, LI Sen, LIANG Junyan, DU Yang, QIN Zhengchang . Speex and deep-encoding-based moving underwater acoustic communications[J]. Journal of Dalian Maritime University, 2023 , 49(4) : 141 -150 . DOI: 10.16411/j.cnki.issn1006-7736.2023.04.016

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