Underwater Sensor Nodes and Networks

Lloret, Jaime

doi:10.3390/s130911782

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“…Another difference with the terrestrial networks is that sensors can be easily deployed in the underwater environment using 3-D space [7] and other sensor placement algorithms [8]. It has brought new researches focused on the optimization of mobility, coverage and connectivity [9,10,11].…”

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Underwater Acoustic Modems

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Abstract-Due to the growing interest using underwater acoustic networks, there are more and more research papers about underwater communications. These papers are mainly focused on deployments and studies about the constraints of the underwater medium. The underwater acoustic channel is highly variable and the signal transmission can change according to environmental factors such as the temperature, pressure or salinity of the water. For this reason, it is important to know how these devices are developed and the maximum distance and data transfer rates they can achieve. To this end, this paper presents an exhaustive study of existing underwater acoustic modems where their main features are highlighted. We also review the main features of their hardware. All presented proposals in the research literature are compared with commercial underwater acoustic modems. Finally, we analyze different programs and improvements of existing network simulators that are often used to simulate and estimate the behavior of underwater networks.

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“…The related literature includes several surveys about underwater acoustic networks, about WSN architectures [10] [11], about location techniques [13] and other general issues [18]. However there is no specific survey about acoustic modems, where authors focus the content on showing their main features.…”

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“…In [66], a detailed survey highlights underwater natural disaster monitoring applications including underwater earthquakes and volcanoes. To the best of our knowledge, only few real deployed applications are present to date for seismic and tsunami detection.…”

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Underwater Sensor Network Applications: A Comprehensive Survey

Felemban

Shaikh

Qureshi

et al. 2015

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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There is no escaping fact that a huge amount of unexploited resources lies underwater which covers almost 70% of the Earth. Yet, the aquatic world has mainly been unaffected by the recent advances in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and their pervasive penetration in modern day research and industrial development. The current pace of research in the area of underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) is slow due to the difficulties arising in transferring the state-of-the-art WSNs to their underwater equivalent. Maximum underwater deployments rely on acoustics for enabling communication combined with special sensors having the capacity to take on harsh environment of the oceans. However, sensing and subsequent transmission tend to vary as per different subsea environments; for example, deep sea exploration requires altogether a different approach for communication as compared to shallow water communication. This paper particularly focuses on comprehensively gathering most recent developments in UWSN applications and their deployments. We have classified the underwater applications into five main classes, namely, monitoring, disaster, military, navigation, and sports, to cover the large spectrum of UWSN. The applications are further divided into relevant subclasses. We have also shown the challenges and opportunities faced by recent deployments of UWSN.

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“…But still, this area has not been explored well enough to exploit all the resources and their potential applications. Even though the Wireless Sensor Network Protocols and Algorithms ISSN 1943-3581 2016 Network (WSN) technologies have evolved a lot, there are practical difficulties in incorporating the state of the art WSN technologies into UWSN because of the obvious domain characteristics such as constrained environment, error prFone acoustic channel, and mobility of nodes [1,2,3,4,5]. Hence, these unique features of underwater environment have motivated research activities in UWSN.…”

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Simulation Tools for Underwater Sensor Networks: A Survey

Das¹,

Thampi

2017

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In underwater sensor network(UWSN) research, it is highly expensive to deploy a complete test bed involving complex network structure and data links to validate a network protocol or an algorithm. This practical challenge points to the need of a simulation environment which can reproduce the actual underwater scenario without the loss of generality. Since so many simulators are proposed for UWSN simulation, the selection of an appropriate tool based on the research requirement is very important in validation and interpretation of results. This paper provides an in-depth survey of different simulation tools available for UWSN simulation. We compared the features offered by each tool, pre-requirements, and provide the run time experiences of some of the open source tools. We conducted simulation of sample scenarios in some of the open source tools and compared the results. This survey helps a researcher to identify a simulation tool satisfying their specific research requirements.

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Underwater Sensor Nodes and Networks

Cited by 109 publications

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Underwater Acoustic Modems

Underwater Acoustic Modems

Underwater Sensor Network Applications: A Comprehensive Survey

Simulation Tools for Underwater Sensor Networks: A Survey

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