A MAC Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks

Author

Tao, Meng ; Haoshan, Shi ; Yu, Wang

Author_Institution

The Electronics and Information School; Northwestern Polytechnical University

fYear

2007

Abstract

There exists an increasing demand for reliable, high capacity underwater sensor networks. Application interests include oceanographic information acquiring, environmental monitoring, and coastal defense. A multi-channel media access control (MAC) protocol used for underwater acoustic channel which improves the network efficiency by using RTS-CTS exchange is presented. Simulation tests on OPNET modeler show that, its network communication performance is satisfactory.

Keywords

access protocols; oceanographic equipment; underwater acoustic communication; wireless sensor networks; MAC protocol; OPNET modeler; RTS-CTS exchange; coastal defense; environmental monitoring; media access control protocol; multichannel protocol; network communication; oceanographic information; underwater acoustic channel; underwater sensor networks; Access protocols; Acoustic sensors; Energy consumption; Instruments; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Sea measurements; Underwater acoustics; MAC; underwater acoustic channels; underwater sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Measurement and Instruments, 2007. ICEMI '07. 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1136-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1136-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMI.2007.4351103

Filename

4351103