Software-Defined Underwater Acoustic Modems: Historical Review and the NILUS Approach

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 722-737

  Dol, Henry S ^a   Casari, Paolo ^b   Van Der Zwan, Timo ^a   Otnes, Roald ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b IMDEA NETWORKS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^c NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

Open architecture; sea trials; software defined modems; underwater acoustic communications; underwater wireless networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTEROPERABILITY; MODEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SENSOR NODES;

COGNITIVE NETWORKINGS; COMMUNICATION STACKS; COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEMS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC MODEM; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS; UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84990861413     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2016.2598412     Document Type: Article

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