Bionic Underwater Acoustic Communication by Mimicking Dolphin Whistle Based on Frequency Shift Keying

MA Tianlong; LIU Songzuo; QIAO Gang; PU Wangyi

doi:10.11999/JEIT211322

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MA Tianlong, LIU Songzuo, QIAO Gang, PU Wangyi. Bionic Underwater Acoustic Communication by Mimicking Dolphin Whistle Based on Frequency Shift Keying[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2022, 44(6): 2045-2053. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211322

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MA Tianlong, LIU Songzuo, QIAO Gang, PU Wangyi. Bionic Underwater Acoustic Communication by Mimicking Dolphin Whistle Based on Frequency Shift Keying[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2022, 44(6): 2045-2053. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211322

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Bionic Underwater Acoustic Communication by Mimicking Dolphin Whistle Based on Frequency Shift Keying

doi: 10.11999/JEIT211322

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Acoustic Science and Technology Laboratory, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
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Key Laboratory of Marine Information Acquisition and Security(Harbin Engineering University), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin 150001, China
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College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61771152), The Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (YQ2019F002), China Scholarship Council

Received Date: 2021-11-24
Rev Recd Date: 2022-03-21

Available Online: 2022-04-17

Publish Date: 2022-06-21

Abstract

Abstract

To meet the demand of covert Underwater Acoustic Communication (UAC), a bionic UAC method by mimicking dolphin whistle based on Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) is proposed. The information modulated baseband signal is added to the selected spectrum contour of the dolphin whistle with a certain weight to obtain the synthetic contour. Then generate the synthetic whistle to transmit the information. The receiver extracts the received synthetic whistle, and coherently multiples it with the local whistle, whose contour has a fix frequency difference from the selected whistle contour. A low-pass filtering is adopted to obtain the FSK signal, which is used for demodulation. The bionic effect is analyzed through Time-Frequency Correlation Coefficient (TFCC) and Mel frequency cepstrum Distance (MelD). Simulation and sea trial verified its feasibility. A reliable communication can be achieved at 2km when the symbol width is 0.1s and the TFCC is over 0.99. The low complexity makes the proposed bionic UAC method more suitable for implement, which provides technical support for the practical application of bionic UAC.
- Underwater Acoustic Communication (UAC),
- Bionic communication,
- Dolphin whistle,
- Spectrum contour,
- Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)

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