DocumentCode :
2704821
Title :
A Survey of Existing Medium Access Control (MAC) for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN)
Author :
Yunus, Farizah ; Ariffin, Sharifah H S ; Zahedi, Yasser
Author_Institution :
UTM-MIMOS Center of Excellence, Univ. Teknol. Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Malaysia
fYear :
2010
fDate :
26-28 May 2010
Firstpage :
544
Lastpage :
549
Abstract :
Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN) consist of a certain number of sensors that interact to send the sensed data to the sink node and perform collaborative task. Most UWSN choose acoustic as a communication medium for wireless transmission. However, electromagnetic waves are also offer a great merit in special underwater environment such as shallow water. UWSN is significantly different from terrestrial sensor networks in many aspects such as mobility of sensor nodes due to water current, propagation delay and propagation loss. These distinctions feature of underwater sensor network pose many new challenges for delivering information from sensor nodes to sink node effectively in UWSN. To achieve reliable data transfer in underwater sensor network scenarios, a new event MAC protocol need to be developed to provide energy efficient and reliable upstream data transfer.
Keywords :
Acoustic sensors; Collaboration; Electromagnetic scattering; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Propagation delay; Propagation losses; Underwater acoustics; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; MAC protocol; RF communication; Underwater wireless sensor network; transport protocol;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Mathematical/Analytical Modelling and Computer Simulation (AMS), 2010 Fourth Asia International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7196-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/AMS.2010.110
Filename :
5489238
Link To Document :
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