Yougan Chen, received the B.S. degree from the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi'an, China, in 2007 and the Ph.D. degree from Xiamen University (XMU), Xiamen, China, in 2012, both in communication engineering. He visited the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut (UCONN), Storrs, CT, USA, from November 2010 to November 2012. He has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, XMU, since 2013. His research interests lie in the areas of communications and signal processing, currently focusing on channel coding and cooperative communications for underwater acoustic channels. Xiaoting Jin, obtained the B.S. degree in marine technology and M.S. degree in marine physics from Xiamen University (XMU), Xiamen, China, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Her research interests focus on chan- nel coding and cooperative communications for underwater acoustic channels. The corresponding author, email: xmxu@xmu.edu.cn.Xiaomei Xu, received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in marine physics from Xiamen University (XMU), Xiamen, China, in 1982, 1988, and 2002, respectively. She was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Enclineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA (1994-1995). She visited the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut (UCONN), Storrs, CT, USA, as a Senior Visiting Scholar in 2012. She is now a Full Professor with the Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, XMU. Her research interests lie in the fields of marine acoustics, underwater acoustic telemetry and remote control, underwater acoustic communication, and signal processing.