Development of Emulator Simulating Transmission of Undersea Radio Communication

The authors’ research group is engaged in research and development of undersea radio communication technology. To improve communication efficiency, antenna characteristic and communication system are being developed through actual measurement. However, it is not easy to conduct large-scale measurement because of the time and cost required for preparation. Therefore, an undersea communication emulator that simulates undersea radio wave attenuation is being built to simplify large-scale experiment. In this paper, an undersea communication emulator of the transmission characteristic obtained by actual measurement is fabricated, and comparison of transmission characteristic and communication performance are shown through communication experiment. As a result of evaluating the communication characteristics of the fabricated emulator, it was confirmed that the transmission characteristic was expressed with a difference of less than 1 dB in a bandwidth of approximately 85 % of the carrier frequency, and that the transmission rate could be simulated with an accuracy of less than 1 Mbps.