Paper Info
Title
Performance evaluation of forwarding protocols for the RACUN network
Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the performance of different network protocols for RACUN, a European Defence Agency project with the objective of demonstrating ad hoc underwater networks for multiple purposes related to security. The RACUN network is designed for long-range communications over areas of large size, hence a very important role is played by the network protocols employed. We show that the channel realizations observed in typical scenarios and the physical layer schemes available in the project lead to significant bit error rates. Therefore, the protocols that offer some inherent form of redundancy, as in the case of flooding-based protocols, tend to yield better performance than protocols based on the exchange of signaling traffic. In support of this statement, we simulate two scenarios for the RACUN network over channel realizations that are statistically derived from real channel measurements. Our results provide insight on the advantages and drawbacks of the different packet forwarding strategies, and confirm that flooding-based approaches perform better. In addition, we prove how splitting packets into multiple fragments to match the modem's maximum service data unit significantly limits the performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2532378.2532401
WUWNET
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
underwater network,racun network,real channel measurement,european defence agency project,network protocol,forwarding protocol,flooding-based approach,performance evaluation,better performance,different network protocol,channel realization,different packet forwarding strategy,physical layer,simulation
Conference
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
5
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristiano Tapparello18211.83
Paolo Casari233432.89
G. Toso3234.56
Ivano Calabrese4131.10
R. Otnes582.09
Paul van Walree6322.59
Michael Goetz750.51
Ivor Nissen8131.12
Michele Zorzi97079736.49