A detailed simulation study of the UWAN-MAC protocol for underwater acoustic networks

Oceans Conference Record (IEEE)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Casari, Paolo ^a   Lapiccirella, Fabio E ^a   Zorzi, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Access, custody, and retrieval of data; Acoustic telemetry and communication; Information management

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY POLICY; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACCESS, CUSTODY, AND RETRIEVAL OF DATA; ACOUSTIC TELEMETRY AND COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NETWORK PERFORMANCES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 50449092518     PISSN: 01977385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2007.4449226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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