Research of the multiple access protocol for underwater acoustic networks based on OPNET

Author

Yuan Fei ; Wang Shanhong ; Lin Bilan ; Cheng En

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Underwater Acoust. Commun. & Marine Inf. Technol. Minist. of Educ., Xiamen Univ., Xiamen, China

fYear

2010

fDate

29-31 July 2010

Firstpage

4147

Lastpage

4150

Abstract

The research on MAC protocol is one of the key tasks of the underwater acoustic network. In this paper, the author used the simulation tool OPNET to research about the performance of the protocols ALOHA and MACAW in the underwater acoustic network, and compared the network performance in the different traffics, such as, the average delay, the throughput and the energy consumed. The simulation results showed that the performance of the MACAW protocol was better than the ALOHA protocol in the current underwater networks, and both of them can be used in the low traffic network.

Keywords

access protocols; digital simulation; telecommunication computing; telecommunication traffic; underwater acoustic communication; ALOHA protocols; MAC protocol; MACAW protocol; OPNET simulation tool; low traffic network; multiple access protocol; underwater acoustic networks; Delay; Energy consumption; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Throughput; Underwater acoustics; MAC Protocol; Network Performance; OPNET Simulation; Underwater Acoustic Network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Conference (CCC), 2010 29th Chinese

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6263-6

Type

conf

Filename

5573059