Efficient surface gateway deployment for underwater sensor networks

Author

Ibrahim, Saleh ; Cui, Lun-Hong ; Ammar, Reda

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci.&Eng., Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

fYear

2008

fDate

6-9 July 2008

Firstpage

1177

Lastpage

1182

Abstract

Deploying multiple surface-level radio-capable gateways enhances the performance of underwater acoustic sensor network. The locations of gateways have to be carefully selected to maximize the benefit in a cost-effective way. In this paper, we show how to efficiently solve the surface gateway deployment optimization problem, using heuristic approaches. The results of applying these proposed algorithms to a variety of practical deployment scenarios suggest that these heuristics are nearly optimal for practical cases.

Keywords

internetworking; optimisation; underwater acoustic communication; wireless sensor networks; heuristic approaches; surface gateway deployment optimization problem; surface-level radio-capable gateways; underwater acoustic sensor networks; Acoustic propagation; Acoustic sensors; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Propagation delay; Remote monitoring; Surface acoustic waves; Underwater acoustics; Underwater communication; Wireless sensor networks; Underwater sensor networks; deployment optimization; multi-sinks; surface gateways;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2008. ISCC 2008. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2702-4

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1346

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625609

Filename

4625609