On the relationship between capacity and distance in an underwater acoustic communication channel
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks
Overview of networking protocols for underwater wireless communications
IEEE Communications Magazine
A new energy-efficient, scalable and robust architecture for wireless sensor networks
NTMS'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on New technologies, mobility and security
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
A Set of Simplified Scheduling Constraints for Underwater Acoustic MAC Scheduling
WAINA '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshops of International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
VBF: vector-based forwarding protocol for underwater sensor networks
NETWORKING'06 Proceedings of the 5th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems
Energy-Efficient Routing Schemes for Underwater Acoustic Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Despite many advances in the area of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) during the last years, still many challenges need to be successfully tackled before large-scale deployment of underwater sensor networks becomes a reality. UWSNs usually employ acoustic channels for communications, which compared with radio-frequency channels, allow much lower bandwidths and have longer propagation delays. In the past, different methods have been proposed to define how a node must acquire the channel in order to start a transmission. Given the large propagation delays of underwater communication channels, a TDMA-based approach may need big time-guards. On the other hand, the very same large propagation delay increases the occurrence of the hidden terminal problem in a CSMA-based approach. In this paper, impacts of utilization of different scheduling and retransmission techniques on an underwater routing protocol will be analyzed. This analysis, in which energy consumption, packet delay, number of duplicate packets, and packet loss are considered, will be carried out by means of simulation using the Network Simulator 3 and a subset of EDETA (Energy-efficient aDaptive hiErarchical and robusT Architecture) routing protocol recently adapted to UWSN.