Currently, UWASN (Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network) has been researched as a branch of sensor networks. UWASNs use a transmission media different from terrestrial wireless sensor networks. That is, the former uses acoustic waves and the latter uses radio waves for communication. G/W (Gateway)s in UWASNs are nodes for relaying data transmission between a UWASN and a terrestrial wireless sensor...

Recently, underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) attracted the interest of many researchers and the past three decades have held the rapid progress of underwater acoustic communication. One of the major problems in UWSNs is how to transfer data from the mobile node to the base stations and choosing the optimized route for data transmission. Secure routing in UWSNs is necessary for packet d...

xiv Chapter 1: Introduction 1 1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2.1 Communication Medium for UWSN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2.2 The Vision of UWSN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2.3 Acoustic Propagation and Sensornet Protocols . . . . . ....

underwater acoustic wireless sensor network (uawsn) use acoustic signalsto transmit data. acoustic signals in underwater environment have high bit errorrate, long propagation delay and limited bandwidth. another constraint in uwasnis energy. due to these constraints, design of energy and bandwidth efficient andpropagation delay aware mac protocol is a great challenge in uwasn.underwater sensor ...

Deploying a multi-hop underwater acoustic sensor network (UASN) in a large area brings about new challenges in reliable data transmissions and survivability of network due to the limited underwater communication range/bandwidth and the limited energy of underwater sensor nodes. In order to address those challenges and achieve the objectives of maximization of data delivery ratio and minimizatio...

The Underwater Swarm is a particular Underwater Network configuration characterized by nodes very close one to each other, with mobility capability. The structure of the network is that of a distributed network, in which the nodes, through the exchange of control information, will take decisions in collaborative manner. This type of network raises challenges for its effective design and develop...

This article presents an empirical model for the noise of the acoustic underwater channel in shallow water from the analysis of field data measurements. A probability density function for the noise amplitude distribution is proposed and the associated likelihood functions are derived. As a result, an expression to the probability of symbol error for binary signaling is presented for the channel...

Underwater acoustic communication and networks have attracted significant attention in recent years, with applications ranging from ocean monitoring to off-shore sensor control, and port surveillance. Experimental data are required to test and develop effective underwater networking protocols before underwater networks can be successfully deployed for real world applications. Unfortunately, the...

Submarine confinement is a key element in most underwater communication application. Acoustic communication of movable submarine networks face with many unmatched inquisitive like long arch, high communication power consumption and convergence mobility. Unrushed signal enlargement allows multiple packets to coordinate travel through the submarine channel, which is harsh to improve the overall t...

Underwater wireless networks consist of mobile and static nodes, which usually communicate using the acoustic channel since radio transmissions attenuate rapidly and optical communication is only suitable for short distances. The underwater acoustic channel is plagued with issues of high transmission power requirements, rapidly changing channel characteristics, multi-path echoes, possible high ...