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Multi-transducer ultrasonic communication
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2009
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Ersagun, Erdem
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RF and acoustic communications are widely used in terrestrial and underwater environments, respectively. This thesis examines the use of ultrasonic communication alternately in terrestrial applications. We first investigate the ultrasonic channel in order to observe whether reliable communication is possible among the ultrasonic nodes as an alternative to RF-based communications. Some key characteristics of the single-input-single-output (SISO) and single-inputmultiple- output (SIMO) ultrasonic channel are inspected with extensive experiments utilizing ultrasonic transmitters and receivers. Well known receiver diversity techniques are employed to combine the observations of multiple receiving ultrasonic transducers in a SIMO scheme and receiver diversity gain is attained. The thesis also covers the implementation of a receiver node by using a low-cost microcontroller.
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Electrical engineering.
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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610403/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18421
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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Theses
