Design and evaluation of a low-cost, DIY-inspired, underwater platform to promote experimental research in UWSN

Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 239-251

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

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

Author keywords

Low cost; Software Defined Radio (SDR); Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UWSN); Underwater Platform to Promote Experimental Research (UPPER)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; NETWORK LAYERS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOFTWARE RADIO; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; LOW COSTS; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS (UWSN); UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84955669990     PISSN: 15708705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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