An Adaptive Propagation-delay-tolerant MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

@inproceedings{citeulike:1477172, abstract = {To support the retrieval of accurate and up-to-date information from beneath the world's oceans, it is desirable to deploy underwater sensor networks. However, since radio frequencies (RF) do not propagate well underwater, acoustic channels are employed to support long-distance and low-power communication in underwater sensor networks even though acoustic signals suffer from long propagation delay and have very limited bandwidth. In this paper, we rst show the limitation of conventional MAC protocols in the proposed environment; and introduce a new MAC protocol: the adaptive propagation-delaytolerant collision-avoidance protocol (APCAP). We demonstrate that, in channels with long propagation delay, APCAP significantly outperforms those MAC protocols that are devised for RF-based networks.}, author = {Guo, Xiaoxing and Frater, Michael R. and Ryan, Michael J. }, booktitle = {OCEANS 2007 Europe}, citeulike-article-id = {1477172}, howpublished = {to appear}, keywords = {flashr, uan}, posted-at = {2007-07-24 16:10:21}, priority = {0}, title = {An Adaptive Propagation-delay-tolerant MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1477172 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1477172 TI - An Adaptive Propagation-delay-tolerant MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks T2 - OCEANS 2007 Europe N2 - To support the retrieval of accurate and up-to-date information from beneath the world's oceans, it is desirable to deploy underwater sensor networks. However, since radio frequencies (RF) do not propagate well underwater, acoustic channels are employed to support long-distance and low-power communication in underwater sensor networks even though acoustic signals suffer from long propagation delay and have very limited bandwidth. In this paper, we rst show the limitation of conventional MAC protocols in the proposed environment; and introduce a new MAC protocol: the adaptive propagation-delaytolerant collision-avoidance protocol (APCAP). We demonstrate that, in channels with long propagation delay, APCAP significantly outperforms those MAC protocols that are devised for RF-based networks. KW - flashr KW - uan AU - Guo, Xiaoxing AU - Frater, Michael AU - Ryan, Michael ER -