Toward practical MAC design for underwater acoustic networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 872-886

  Zhu, Yibo ^a   Peng, Zheng ^a   Cui, Jun Hong ^a   Chen, Huifang ^b  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

long preamble; low transmission rate; medium access control; time sharing; Underwater acoustic networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; MODEMS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BETTER PERFORMANCE; COLLISION PROBABILITY MODELS; LONG PREAMBLE; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; RANDOM ACCESS; TIME-SHARING; TRANSMISSION RATES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84924598433     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2014.2330299     Document Type: Article

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