April 1996 VOLUME 21 NUMBER 2 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Acoustic Communications

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
Milica Stojanovic Recent advances in high-speed underwater acoustic communications 125
Henry A. Leinhos Capacity calculations for rapidly fading communications channels 137
Christian Bjerrum-Niese, Leif Bjørnø, Mark Andre Pinto, and Bruno Quellec A simulation tool for high data-rate acoustic communication in a shallow-water, time-varying channel 143
Benoît Geller, Vittorio Capellano, Jean-Mark Brossier, Abderrahman Essebbar, and Geneviève Jourdain Equalizer for video rate transmission in multipath underwater communications 150
Milica Stojanovic and Zoran Zvonar Multichannel processing of broad-band multiuser communication signals in shallow water acoustic channels 156
Anthony G. Bessios Compound compensation strategies for wireless data communications over the multimodal acoustic ocean waveguide 167
Bryan Woodward and Hayri Sari Digital underwater acoustic voice communications 181

PAPERS
Iman W. Schurman Reverberation rejection with a dual-line towed array 193
Roger J. Tremblay and Dean W. Lytle Development and analysis of echo classification using time delays 205
Joseph C. Park and Robert M. Kennedy Remote sensing of ocean sound speed profiles by a perceptron neural network 216

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Rodney F. W. Coates, Ming Zheng, and Liansheng Wang "BASS 300 PARACOM": A "model" underwater parametric communication system 225

COMMUNICATIONS
G. C. Gaunaurd and H. Huang Reply to "Comments on 'Acoustic Scattering by an Air Bubble Near the Sea Surface'" 233
M. Strasberg Comments on "Acoustic scattering by an air bubble near the sea surface" 233