A Low-cost and flexible underwater platform to promote experiments in UWSN research

Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems, WUWNet 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ahmed, Niaz ^a   Abbas, Waqas Bin ^a   Syed, Affan A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CONDITIONS; COTS COMPONENT; DATA RATES; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; HIGH COSTS; HIGH VARIABILITY; HIGHER-LAYER PROTOCOLS; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; LOW DATA RATES; NONLINEAR CHANNEL; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PLUG-AND-PLAY; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS; UNDERWATER NETWORKING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; NETWORK LAYERS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84871537868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2398936.2398941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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