Title :
The Architecture of Surface Gateway and Its Base Station for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network
Author :
Na, Kyengheum ; Nam, Heungwoo ; An, Sunshin
Author_Institution :
Comput. Network Lab., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
Recently, the importance of a water resource is highly concerned. But ocean is not a safe place and hard to approach. Therefore, there is a need to approach from a distance. For this reason, Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UASNs) technologies are used and vigorously studied for wireless monitoring underwater environment. The UASNs gather various underwater environmental data that should be delivered to a Monitoring Center -- need the information.-where nearby or far from UASNs are deployed. To deliver data form underwater to the Monitoring Center or vice versa, a gateway should change acoustic signal to RF or CDMA, WiFi, and so on. Depends on the service requirement, the surface gateway can adopt various wireless communication channels such as Cellular network, Zigbee, and so on. In this paper, we propose the architecture of surface gateway that has several wireless communication channels and communication protocol.
Keywords :
internetworking; protocols; sensor placement; underwater acoustic communication; underwater acoustic telemetry; water resources; wireless sensor networks; CDMA; UASN technology; WiFi; Zigbee; acoustic signal; base station; cellular network; communication protocol; monitoring center; surface gateway architecture; underwater environmental data; underwater wireless sensor network; water resource; wireless communication channels; wireless monitoring underwater environment; Base stations; Logic gates; Monitoring; Multiaccess communication; Sea surface; Underwater vehicles; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2011 IFIP 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1822-9
DOI :
10.1109/EUC.2011.68