Abstract-Ship and yard area environments contain materials mainly composed of metals, which also are applied to the interior structures. Such environments embody air channels characterized by several multipath propagation delays and long maximum delay time. Channel models for ship and yard area network are proposed, and existing communication systems Zigbee, Wifi, and Wibro are evaluated in the channel models. The existing systems such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and code division multiple access (CDMA) are combined to produce different variations of orthogonal frequency and code division multiplexing (OFCDM) for experimentation and application. The performance of proposed OFCDM was experimented in ship and yard area network environments. propose OFCDM system which has three versions in Section III. The results of the proposed system in SYAN channel model are shown in Section IV. In the last section, conclusions are reached.
Index Terms-OFCDM
II. SYAN COMMUNICATION CHANNEL MODELSYAN differs from regular channel environments in that they are sealed and contain metallic structures needed for operations, both of which factors are notorious for hindering signals [1]. Metallic structures cut off and reflect RF and this result in multipath propagation and long delay time due to the reflected signals. A channel environment resembling that of downtown city centers is substituted for the Wibro system in order to satisfy the condition of long delay time. Downtown city centers satisfy the condition of long delay time because the signals must travel through large, high buildings in city centers. It also possesses a certain amount of multipath propagation due to densely locate buildings, but it is not as significant as that in SYAN environments [9]. Thus, a channel environment resembling those of interior factories environment is applied to Wibro channel environment [10]. Factory environment is applied because of its desirable characteristics similar to those of shipyards for containing metallic structures that create multipath propagations [9], [10]. As indicated in Fig. 3, model OFCDM I is a model where Two-Dimensional (2D) spreader and 2D de-spreader blocks of the CDMA functions are added on the existing OFDM communication system. 2D spreaders expand the time and frequency of data. A symbol of OFDM from transmitter indicated in Fig. 4(a) is spread 4 times in terms of time using time code and spread 2 times in terms of frequency using frequency code as shown in Fig. 4(b). Consequently, Fig. 4(c) shows the data is expanded 8 times in terms of time and frequency. Finally, IFFT of OFDM is applied and sent. In the receiver, 2D spreader combines the data using time code, and executes final decision of the combined data using the frequency code to print data as indicated in Fig. 5.Performance is improved by increasing data's SNR by using the method above of expanding the data in terms of time and frequency from in the transmitter, and combining data in the receiver. As indicated in Fig. 6, model OFCD...