An efficient store-and-forward protocol for a shallow-water acoustic local area network

Author

Talavage, Jennifer L. ; Thiel, Timothy E. ; Brady, David

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

13-16 Sep 1994

Abstract

A store-and-forward protocol for a shallow-water acoustic local area network is presented. This protocol permits random deployment of an unlimited number of possibly mobile acoustic modems in littoral zones. Modem connectivity is adaptively learned and permits the incorporation of fresh modems into an operating network. The main points of the protocol initialization, maintenance, routing, and rerouting algorithms are presented. The protocol borrows from existing algorithms for packet radio networks and presents methods to decrease delay and retransmission of packets to conserve the limited modem power

Keywords

data acquisition; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; local area networks; modems; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; protocols; telemetry; underwater sound; acoustic telemetry; adaptive learning; adaptively learned; coast; connectivity; data acquisition ALAN; data telemetry; initialization; littoral zone; maintenance; measurement technique; mobile acoustic modem; ocean bottom sensor; random deployment; rerouting algorithm; routing; sea geophysical method; shallow-water acoustic local area network; store-and-forward protocol; Circuits; Demodulation; Local area networks; Modems; Monitoring; Packet radio networks; Routing protocols; Sea surface; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Underwater acoustics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '94. 'Oceans Engineering for Today's Technology and Tomorrow's Preservation.' Proceedings

Conference_Location

Brest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2056-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1994.363865

Filename

363865