Utilizing acoustic propagation delay to design MAC protocols for underwater wireless sensor networks

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1035-1044

  Guo, Peng ^a   Jiang, Tao ^a   Zhu, Guangxi ^a   Chen, Hsiao Hwa ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acoustic propagation delay; MAC protocol; Underwater wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; ACOUSTICS; ENERGY CONVERSION; HYBRID SENSORS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION DELAY; ACOUSTIC PROPAGATIONS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COLLISION PROBLEMS; CONTENTIONBASED; DUTY-CYCLE; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTIONS; MAC PROTOCOL; MAC PROTOCOLS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; PACKET COLLISIONS; PROPAGATION DELAYS; RANDOM ACCESSES; RETRANSMISSIONS; SAVE ENERGIES; UNDERWATER; UNDERWATER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WASTE ENERGIES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 54949085085     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.659     Document Type: Article

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