Analysis and Design of Cooperative Diversity Systems for
Underwater Cooperative Communications
ABSTRACT
Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Cooperative diversity is a transmission method which extracts spatial diversity advantages through the use of relays.
The concept of cooperative diversity has been recently applied to underwater communication and the number of current
studies in this area is very limited. Our main objective in this project is to determine the fundamental performance bounds
of relay-assisted underwater communication considering the inherent characteristics of the underwater channel and
design novel transmitter/receiver architectures to enable high transmission speeds and high link reliability. Towards this
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