Underwater wireless sensor networks: How do acoustic propagation models impact the performance of higher-level protocols?

Sensors

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1312-1335

  Llor, Jesús ^a   Malumbres, Manuel P ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acoustic propagation models; Mac and routing protocols; Network simulation; Underwater wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; TELEMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCERS; WATER;

EID: 84857544642     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120201312     Document Type: Article

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