| Title: | Underwater communications |
| Authors: | Marco Lanzagorta, Author |
| Material Type: | eBook |
| Publisher: | San Rafael, CA : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012 |
| Series: | Synthesis lectures on communications |
| ISBN / ISSN / EAN : | 978-1-60845-845-5 |
| Format: | 1 online resource (129 p.) |
| Languages: | English |
| Subjects: | Optical communications ; Quantum communications ; Underwater acoustic telemetry |
| Description: |
Underwater vehicles and underwater moorings are increasing in tactical importance. As such, it is critical to have a robust and secure communication system connecting underwater vehicles on a long seaborne mission and a ground station. As a matter of fact, the deployment of efficient communication links with underwater vehicles is one of the greatest technological challenges presently confronted by the world's naval forces. To circumvent most of the limitations involved in the use of RF or acoustic channels for perfectly secure communications with underwater vehicles, it is worth considering the feasibility of an optical channel to facilitate a two-way satellite communication link secured via perfectly secure ciphers enabled by a quantum key distribution protocol.
Offers a concise review of underwater communications systems. The approach is pedagogical, placing emphasis on the physics behind the attenuating properties of the oceanic environment and the propagation of electromagnetic signals in the ELF, VLF, and optical bands. |
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