Channel Estimation and Compensation for Underwater Acoustic Pipeline Communication

An estimation and compensation algorithm for underwater acoustic pipeline channel is investigated. A joint time-frequency adaptive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimation based on the maximum likelihood method is introduced firstly, and the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) is proposed so as to evaluate the performance of the SNR estimation algorithm. For frequency-selective fading channel part, estimation and compensation are made to improve the robustness of the system on the basis of the LMS algorithm. Furthermore, real-time update iteration algorithm in the frequency domain is investigated to realize synchronous receiving and estimation. For verification, simulations and actual data tests were made, and the results show that the algorithm possesses great robustness, efficiency and accuracy inrealization of SNR estimation, signal detection and frequency impulse compensation for the channel.