Performance of turbo coded MIMO-OFDM system for underwater communications

In this correspondence, we consider the performance of Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) assisted multi-carrier (MC) modulated system for the transmission of the acoustic signal in underwater communications. In underwater communications, acoustic interference and ambient noise are the two major channel impairments. In our work, we consider turbo code as channel encoder and at the receiver, we employ iterative decoding algorithm to alleviate the effects of ambient noise and acoustic interference. We implement IFFT block at the transmitter and FFT block at the receiver to realize multi-carrier modulation. Particularly, we investigate the effects of eleven tap delay pertaining to shallow water model in the context of coded MIMO-OFDM system. At the receiver, we realize non-linear detector based on zero-forcing (ZF) algorithm. It is shown through simulation results that MIMO-OFDM system with ZF algorithm provides achievable bit error rate with less signal-to-noise ratio using iterative decoding algorithm..