Design of a propagation-delay-tolerant MAC protocol for underwater acoustic sensor networks

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 170-180

  Guo, Xiaoxing ^a   Frater, Michael R ^a   Ryan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; MAC; Underwater networks; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CHANNELS; ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; DELAY TOLERANT; HANDSHAKING; IDLE TIME; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; LOW-POWER COMMUNICATION; MAC; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL; PROPAGATION DELAYS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SIMULATION RESULT; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS; UNDERWATER NETWORKS; UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACCESS CONTROL; ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROSENSORS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 67349150126     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2009.2015164     Document Type: Article

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