Underwater acousticwireless sensor networks: Advances and future trends in physical, MAC and routing layers

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 795-833

  Climent, Salvador ^a   Sanchez, Antonio ^a   Capella, Juan Vicente ^a   Meratnia, Nirvana ^b   Serrano, Juan Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Future trends; Medium access control layer; Physical layer; Routing layer; Security; Survey; Underwater sensor networks

Indexed keywords

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; NETWORK LAYERS; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

FUTURE TRENDS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; PHYSICAL LAYERS; ROUTING LAYERS; SECURITY; UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84891776610     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140100795     Document Type: Article

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