Short paper: Low-cost medium-range optical underwater modem

Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks, WUWNet '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lu, Feng ^a   Lee, Sammy ^a   Mounzer, Jeffrey ^a   Schurgers, Curt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gold codes; Noise estimation; Optical modem; Underwater sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION RANGE; COST-EFFICIENT DESIGN; DATA RATES; DETECTION ALGORITHM; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; GOLD CODES; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; NOISE ESTIMATION; OCEAN EXPLORATION; OPTICAL WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY; UNDERWATER APPLICATION; UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION; UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS;

MODEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 74549202219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1654130.1654141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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