In recent years underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have emerged as one of the most popular researched areas in the networking field due to its numerous applications in ocean exploration, underwater surveillance and pollution detection. With specific characteristics such as higher delay in transmission, continuously moving nodes, limited storage and battery, most of the routing protocol...

The paper surveys recent advances in underwater vehicle navigation and identifies future research challenges. Improvements in underwater navigation sensor technology and underwater navigation algorithms are enabling novel underwater vehicles and novel underwater vehicle missions. This paper first reviews advances in underwater navigation sensor technology. Second, advances in deterministic and ...

The field of underwater acoustic networking is growing rapidly thanks to the key role it plays in many military and commercial applications. Among these are disaster prevention, tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, pollution monitoring and oceanographic data collection. The underwater acoustic propagation channel presents formidable challenges, including slow propagation of acoustic wav...

This paper presents the advanced sonar sensor model capable of building an underwater terrain map based on the Bayes filter in the manner of the occupancy grid. The proposed sonar sensor model basically considers the losses of received ultrasound intensity according to the underwater absorption and reflection on a terrain surface. The Bayes filter including the advanced sonar sensor model is ap...

Sensor localization is a central problem for sensor networks. If the sensor positions are uncertain, the target tracking ability of the sensor network is reduced. Sensor localization in underwater environments is traditionally addressed using acoustic range measurements involving known anchor or surface nodes. We explore the usage of triaxial magnetometers and a friendly vessel with known magne...

A lot of researchers lately have attained the attention of Wireless Sensor Networks. On the other hand, when measures it up to the terrestrial or global WSN, Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSN) depicts an innovative networking standard. The exploitation of Underwater Sensor Networks is not simple or clear-cut, fundamental defies are therefore required to be mapped just because the sort of setting...

Localization is an important topic in the underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN) because sensor nodes are randomly scattered over a region and can get connected into a network on their own. In this paper, we proposed an improved correction localization algorithm based on wave direction spectrum for underwater wireless sensor networks. First, we use the length of anchor nodes and depth of no...

This chapter discusses the development of a short range acoustic communication channel model and its properties for the design and evaluation of MAC (Medium Access Control) and routing protocols, to support network enabled Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). The growth of underwater operations has required data communication between various heterogeneous underwater and surface based communica...

In this paper, we propose a cluster-based synchronization algorithm for underwater acoustic sensor networks based on MU-Sync, called EMU-Sync. Time synchronization is an important part of many services. Although many time synchronization protocols for terrestrial wireless sensor networks have been well-developed, none of them can be applied directly in underwater wireless sensor networks. The c...