Abstract
The primary contribution of this paper is to develop a realistic yet
mathematically tractable channel emulator for underwater acoustic
communications (UWAC) channels. Our proposed emulator is based on the
Wide-Sense Stationary Uncorrelated Scattering (WSSUS) assumption, where
the channel samples are generated using finite sum-of-sinusoids (SOS)
with uniformly distributed phases. The MATLAB-based Simulink platform
and its associated block-set elements are used to generate numerical
plots for amplitude distribution, Doppler frequency and channel impulse
response. This Simulink-based design offers an added advantage over
prevalent UWAC channel simulators, as it can be directly adapted to FPGA
platform for hardware implementation.