January 1991 VOLUME 16 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Ocean Acoustic Data Telemetry

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL
Josko A. Catipovic Guest Editorial 1

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
Timothy F. Duda Modeling weak fluctuations of undersea telemetry signals 3
Abolfazl Falahati, Bryan Woodward, and Stephen C. Bateman Underwater acoustic channel models for 4800 b/s QPSK signals 12
John G. Proakis Adaptive equalization techniques for acoustic telemetry channels 21
Geir Helge Sandsmark and Arne Solstad Simulations of an adaptive equalizer applied to high-speed ocean acoustic data transmission 32
Meir Feder and Josko A. Catipovic Algorithms for joint channel estimation and data recovery--Application to equalization in underwater communications 42
Hyuck M. Kwon and Theodore G. Birdsall Digital waveform codings for ocean acoustic telemetry 56
John G. Proakis Coded modulation for digital communications over Rayleigh fading channels 66
Samir S. Soliman Synchronization issues in ocean telemetry 74
Josko A. Catipovic and Lee E. Freitag Spatial diversity processing for underwater acoustic telemetry 86
JoEllen Wilbur and John Bono Wigner/cycle spectrum analysis of spread spectrum and diversity transmissions 98
Jean-Noël Decarpigny, Bernard Hamonic, and Oscar Bryan Wilson Jr. The design of low frequency underwater acoustic projectors: Present status and future trends 107
Rodney F. W. Coates The design of transducers and arrays for underwater data transmission 123
Adam Zielinski and Lixue Wu A novel array of ring radiators 136
Predrag Vukadin and Goran Hudec Acoustic telemetry system for underwater control 142
Michael S. Triantafyllou and Mark A. Grosenbaugh Robust control for underwater vehicle systems with time delays 146
Günter Niemeyer and Jean-Jacques E. Slotine Stable adaptive teleoperation 152

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
Lucy R. Wyatt High-frequency radar measurements of the ocean wave-directional spectrum 163