Numerical modeling of hiding properties of underwater acoUStic communication signals with linear sweep of the carrier

На результатах численного моделирования продемонстрировано, что распределения вероятностей огибающей и фазы смеси гауссова шума и (слабого) гидроакустического сигнала связи, характеризуемого линейной разверткой несущей, могут иметь исчезающе малые отличия от аналогичных распределений, характерных для просто гауссова шума. Использование непрерывного расширения спектра сигнала связи может представлять интерес для задач скрытого обмена данными, в которых обнаружение сеанса связи устройствами перехвата должно быть затруднительным или невозможным. С применением численных моделей проанализированы возможности использования сигналов с непрерывным расширением спектра для скрытой цифровой гидроакустической связи посредством штатных приемоизлучающих гидроакустических систем, находящихся на вооружении действующих кораблей. Based on the results of the numerical modeling, the vanishingly small differences between the probability distributions of the envelope and phase of the sum of Gaussian noise and (weak) underwater acoustic signal with linear carrier sweep, and the same distributions for the Gaussian noise all alone are demonstrated. Utilization of the continuous spectrum spread of the communication signal may be applied to the task of covert data exchange, where detection of the communication session by the intercepting equipment must be complicated or impossible. Using numerical models, we analyzed the capabilities of implementation of the signals with continuous spectrum spread for covert digital underwater acoustic communications through the standard underwater acoustic transducers, which are in service on the operational ready vessels.

Delta-Sigma Digital-to-Time Converter for Band-Select Spread Spectrum Clock

This paper proposes an innovative method of converting digital signal to time-domain analog signal, which fully enjoys robustness and digital circuit friendliness. This technique utilizes a digital delta-sigma ( ) modulator following a digital-to-time converter (DTC) circuit with various modulation methods. As an application of the proposed method, novel spreadspectrum clock generation (SSCG) algorithms (such as for DC-DC converters) have been investigated which can select the noise spectrum spread bands; e.g., they can exclude the noisespectrum spread in AM, FM radio bands. The proposed circuit takes advantage of digital technology, which is simple, fast (reachable at high clock frequency) and flexible (programmable).

A New Synchronization Method for Direct Sequence Spectrum Spread Based Systems

For precise indoor localization accurate synchronization is necessary. In this paper we propose a new synchronization method for direct sequence spread spectrum modulation based systems, which enables a more accurate correlation peak detection. We provide comprehensive statistical analysis and numerical results for the decision error probability assuming both coherent and non-coherent receiving via an AWGN channel. The essence of the proposed method is the two overlapping correlators, which allows taking into account the statistically not independent noise components to reduce the error probability of the correlation peak detection.