A parallel beamforming algorithm for sonar signal processing

Sonar is a general term for various underwater acoustic devices, which are used to perform underwater target detection, positioning, identification, tracking and underwater communication, navigation, measurement and other tasks. All sonar devices including active sonar and passive sonar both require a signal processor to execute underwater acoustic signal processing. Beamforming is the main and core component of the sonar signal processor, and its processing speed affects the real-time performance of sonar. Thus, this paper first implements a parallel sonar beamforming algorithm to improve the processing speed of the beamforming algorithm. The proposed algorithm was carried out several experiments, and the experimental results demonstrate that the parallelism of multi-core CPU can bring better speedup ratio and efficiency than the traditional serial CPU algorithm.