Performance Analysis of Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access over An Underwater Acoustic Channel

Key Points

• Performance analysis shows that SC-FDMA can effectively address PAPR issues in underwater communication.
• Under conditions of symbol timing errors, maintaining frame start time errors below 256 samples prevents performance degradation.
• Analysis of multipath delays indicates that they can be mitigated to enhance communication effectiveness in underwater environments.
• The study highlights the advantages of using SC-FDMA for multimedia services in underwater exploration and monitoring.