The internet underwater: an IP-compatible protocol stack for commercial undersea modems

Authors:
Yifan Sun;Tommaso Melodia
Affiliations:
State University of New York at Buffalo;State University of New York at Buffalo
Venue:
Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems
Year:
2013

Citing 6
Cited 0

A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets

Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Kernel korner: why and how to use netlink socket

Linux Journal
When underwater acoustic nodes should sleep with one eye open: idle-time power management in underwater sensor networks

WUWNet '06 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Underwater networks
Underwater Acoustic Communications and Networks for the US Navy's Seaweb Program

SENSORCOMM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
IP is dead, long live IP for wireless sensor networks

Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems
Distributed routing algorithms for underwater acoustic sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Recent underwater sensor network research has focused on developing physical, medium access control, and network layer protocols to enable high data rate, energy-efficient and reliable acoustic communications. However, it is now essential to design and standardize architectures that will enhance the usability and interoperability of underwater networks. This paper proposes a networking architecture to efficiently provide interoperability with traditional TCP/IP protocol stacks for commercial underwater modems. The proposal is based on an adaptation layer located between the data link layer and the network layer, such that the original TCP/IP network and transport layers are preserved unaltered to the maximum extent. The adaptation layer performs header compression and data fragmentation to guarantee energy efficiency. Furthermore, the proposed architecture includes mechanisms for auto-configuration based on router proxies that can avoid human-in-the-loop and save energy when broadcast is needed. The proposed architectural framework was implemented as a Linux device driver for a commercial underwater network modem SM-75 by Teledyne Benthos. Testing and simulation results illustrate that the architecture efficiently provides interoperability with TCP/IP.