Underwater acoustic communication network (UACN) has been considered as an essential infrastructure for ocean exploitation. Performance analysis of UACN is important in underwater acoustic network deployment and management. In this paper, we analyze the network throughput of three-dimensional randomly deployed transmitter-receiver pairs. Due to the long delay of acoustic channels, complicated n...

Underwater communication systems have drawn the attention of the research community in the last 15 years. This growing interest can largely be attributed to new civil and military applications enabled by large-scale networks of underwater devices (e.g., underwater static sensors, unmanned autonomous vehicles (AUVs), and autonomous robots), which can retrieve information from the aquatic and mar...

This is the authors' manuscript of the literature survey monograph " Underwater acoustic networking techniques " , published in the series " SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering ". The content is identical, but the published version has a much nicer layout, a handier format, and separate reference lists for each chapter. The authors have retained the rights to share this work i...

Target localization, which aims to estimate the location of an unknown target, is one of the key issues in applications of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs). However, the constrained property of an underwater environment, such as restricted communication capacity of sensor nodes and sensing noises, makes target localization a challenging problem. This paper relies on fractional sensor...

The Ocean remains the least explored frontiers. Many oceanic and marine applications seen relatively slow in exploiting the state of the art info-communication technologies. Acoustic communications is the most promising mode of communication underwater. Because of high error rate and long propagation delay of the acoustic channel, it is difficult to provide energy efficient communication. We pr...

In order to explore marine natural resources using remote robotic sensor or to enable rapid information exchange between ROV (remotely operated vehicles), AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle), divers, and ships, ultrasonic underwater communication systems are used. However, if the communication system is applied to rich living creature marine environment such as shallow sea, it suffers from gene...

Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) have rapidly developed as mobile sensor networks recently in the investigation, survey, and exploration of the underwater environment. The goal of this paper is to develop a practical and efficient formation control method to improve work efficiency of multi-UUV sensor networks. Distributed leader-follower formation controllers are designed based on a state f...

A simulation based on Gilbert-Elliot packet loss model is developed to simulate an image transmitting system in underwater acoustic channel. This developed system is applied as a platform to study the relation between image quality assessment parameter PSNR, image activity measure (IAM) and channel’s packet loss rate. A group of sample images were transmitted in this communication system and a ...

1. Advanced communication techniques of sparse channel sensing and nonbinary LDPC coding. Underwater acoustic channels are naturally sparse, but how to effectively exploit the sparsity is a challenging task. We will investigate the recently developed “compressive sensing” algorithms for sparse channel estimation in the context of multicarrier acoustic communications. On the other hand, channel ...

1. Advanced communication techniques of sparse channel sensing and nonbinary LDPC coding. Underwater acoustic channels are naturally sparse, but how to effectively exploit the sparsity is a challenging task. We will investigate the recently developed “compressive sensing” algorithms for sparse channel estimation in the context of multicarrier acoustic communications. On the other hand, channel ...