Research challenges and applications for underwater sensor networking

Author

Heidemann, John ; Ye, Wei ; Wills, Jack ; Syed, Affan ; Li, Yuan

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. Sci., Southern California Univ., CA

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 April 2006

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

235

Abstract

This paper explores applications and challenges for underwater sensor networks. We highlight potential applications to off-shore oilfields for seismic monitoring, equipment monitoring, and underwater robotics. We identify research directions in short-range acoustic communications, MAC, time synchronization, and localization protocols for high-latency acoustic networks, long-duration network sleeping, and application-level data scheduling. We describe our preliminary design on short-range acoustic communication hardware, and summarize results of high-latency time synchronization

Keywords

acoustic transducers; protocols; scheduling; synchronisation; underwater acoustic communication; application-level data scheduling; equipment monitoring; high-latency acoustic networks; localization protocols; long-duration network sleeping; off-shore oilfields; seismic monitoring; short-range acoustic communication; time synchronization; underwater robotics; underwater sensor networking; Acoustic applications; Acoustic devices; Acoustic sensors; Costs; Hardware; Media Access Protocol; Monitoring; Underwater acoustics; Underwater communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2006. WCNC 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0269-7

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2006.1683469

Filename

1683469