A Study on Pulse-Width-Modulation-Based Power Amplification for Underwater Acoustic OFDM

In this paper, we investigate the power amplification for underwater acoustic orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The maximum power delivery (MPD) and the pilot signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) specific to the OFDM modulation are adopted as design criteria. We study the impact of key parameters associated with the pulse-width modulation (PWM), such as the modulation frequency, the number of quantization bits, and the input...