MACA-U: A media access protocol for underwater acoustic networks

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 833-837

  Ng, Hai Heng ^a   Soh, Wee Seng ^a   Motani, Mehul ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKOFF ALGORITHMS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HANDSHAKING; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOL; MEDIA ACCESS PROTOCOLS; MULTIHOP; MULTIPLE ACCESS COLLISIONS; PACKET FORWARDING; STATE TRANSITION RULE; THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS; UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS; UNDERWATER NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ACCESS CONTROL; RADIO COMMUNICATION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 67249161808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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