A synchronization method for a
photon counting type
underwater wireless optical OOK communication
system, including the design of a transmission
data structure and a synchronization method. The design of the
data structure includes the design of the sending frame structure and the division of the received
signal. The data is transmitted in the form of continuous frames, and the synchronization sequence is periodically embedded in the transmitted data. Before synchronization, the received
signal is divided into slices of the same length; during synchronization, based on a frame-long received
signal, the maximum likelihood joint
estimation method is used to establish the corresponding
optimization problem to find the synchronization sequence position, and some simplification is used to reduce the complexity of solving the original
optimization problem. The present application solves the problem of poor
transmission performance of the
underwater wireless optical OOK communication
system from the perspective of signal synchronization. The synchronization method is simple in form, and the complexity of the method is reduced by simplification, which is more suitable for the
photon counting type
underwater wireless optical OOK communication
system. The present application can improve the synchronization performance with
low complexity and improve the reliability of the
photon counting type underwater wireless optical OOK communication system.