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Software Based Acoustic Modem

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Communication Technologies, Information Security and Sustainable Development (IMTIC 2013)

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In this paper, an acoustic band based software modem is designed and implemented for wireless communication between two personal computers. Its based on an investigation of the theoretical techniques required to develop a modem capable of digital data transmission in an indoor airborne acoustic environment, and the subsequent software development. Text files are used as information to demonstrate the operation and are being built under MATLAB code, modem uses 4-QAM modulation scheme. To realize modem in real-time, the software is developed that converts text in to voice, which is then modulated and transmitted over wired or wireless medium and received on the microphone of the receiver side. This received voice is then again converted to the text and displayed on the computer screen. The design encompasses a significant proportion of the signal synthesis and recovery process is performed digitally in software so that the burden on analogue RF hardware is minimized.

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  1. Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

    Samreen Amir, Bilal Saeed, Danish Soonka & Nimrah Ahmed

  2. King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Mansoor Uz Zafar Dawood

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  1. University of Umm Al-Qura, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Faisal Karim Shaikh

  2. Faculty of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

  3. College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

    Sherali Zeadally

  4. Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Dil Muhammad Akbar Hussain

  5. Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Aftab Ahmed Memon

  6. Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Muhammad Aslam Uqaili

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Amir, S., Saeed, B., Dawood, M.U.Z., Soonka, D., Ahmed, N. (2014). Software Based Acoustic Modem. In: Shaikh, F., Chowdhry, B., Zeadally, S., Hussain, D., Memon, A., Uqaili, M. (eds) Communication Technologies, Information Security and Sustainable Development. IMTIC 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 414. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10987-9_4

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