Single-Element Underwater Acoustic Short Video Communication at 10 kHz: Design and Experiment

Haoci Zheng; Junhui Yao; Yifan Qiu; Feng Tong; Weihua Jiang; Fumin Zhang

doi:10.1109/LWC.2026.3708837

Single-Element Underwater Acoustic Short Video Communication at 10 kHz: Design and Experiment

Haoci Zheng
, Junhui Yao
, Yifan Qiu
, Feng Tong
, Weihua Jiang
, Fumin Zhang

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This letter reports the design and at-sea performance of a single-input single-output (SISO) underwater acoustic (UWA) short video communication scheme at 10 kHz, in which 64-QAM modulation and Polar coding are adopted to facilitate high data rate communication of raw short video streams to rigorously evaluate the physical-layer performance. Its cascaded-structure receiver applies an orthogonal matching pursuit channel estimation based frequency-domain equalizer to shorten the UWA channel, and an RLS-driven direct adaptive decision-feedback equalizer (DA-DFE) for eliminating the residual multipath and Doppler. Sea test results in Xiamen Harbor demonstrate that it is capable of achieving SISO communication of a 3.5-s short video clip over 1 km with an actual data rate of 6.45 kbps.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3916-3920
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2026.3708837
State	Published - 2026
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Short video communication
cascaded-structure
quasi-real-time
single-element
underwater acoustic (UWA)

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Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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