A distributed approach to underwater acoustic communications

A novel distributed underwater acoustic networking (UAN) protocol suitable for ad-hoc deployments of both stationary and mobile nodes dispersed across a relatively wide coverage area is presented. Nodes are dynamically clustered in a distributed manner based on the estimated position of one-hop neighbor nodes within a shallow water environment. The spatial dynamic cellular clustering scheme allows scalable communication resource allocation and channel reuse similar in design to land-based cellular architectures, except devoid of the need for a centralized controlling infrastructure. Simulation results demonstrate that relatively high degrees of interference immunity, network connectivity, and network stability can be achieved despite the severe limitations of the underwater acoustic channel.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Bohner, Christopher George

• Underwater acoustics
• Underwater acoustic telemetry

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

DOI

10.1575/1912/2466

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/2466