Vladimir Burstein

• The major contribution of this work is a novel powerline communication system for underwater acoustical sensor networks. Sonar is the best example of such a network, which has a linear bus topology. There is a number of challenges for a transmission system in this particular application. A high data volume, generated by numerous acoustical sensors, the requirements of high synchronization accuracy and low power consumption, changing channel conditions and a high level of inter-symbol interference, caused by the multi- path nature of a linear bus, are among the problems solved by the suggested multi-carrier transmission system.