Underwater acoustic channel estimation based on sparse recovery algorithms

The authors consider underwater acoustic (UWA) channel estimation based on sparse recovery using the recently developed homotopy algorithm. The UWA communication system under consideration employs orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and receiver preprocessing to compensate for the Doppler effect before channel estimation. The authors first extend the original homotopy algorithm which is for real-valued signals to the complex field....