ROPA: A MAC protocol for underwater acoustic networks with reverse opportunistic packet appending

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  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

CHANNEL UTILIZATION; CONTROL SIGNALING; DATA PACKET; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HANDSHAKING; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOL; ONE-HOP NEIGHBORS; PACKET TRAINS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; TIME SPENT; TRANSMIT DATA; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS;

ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77955022576     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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