Paper Info
Title
Design and implementation of a distributed underwater acoustic communication network simulator based on CORBA middleware and a software-defined MODEM
Abstract
Underwater communication network simulators play a very important role in underwater network research due to the cost of field experiments. Several simulators have been proposed for tackling this problem in past years, such as Aqua, UAN, DESERT and SUNSET. These simulators do not include real physical layers; they are all based on the data package. In practice, the performance of networks deeply depends on the physical layer and the underwater channel. In this paper, we propose a new underwater network simulator, which can perform a large scale distributed simulation over several computers based on a CORBA (Common Object Request Broker) middleware. It allows modulation and demodulation operations to be performed based on a Software-Defined MC-MFSK MODEM. It also allows for synthesizing a received signal based on the Bellhop ray tracing channel model. A demonstration shows that our simulator has the potential ability for a more accurate evaluation of underwater acoustic network performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2532378.2532408
WUWNET
Keywords
Field
DocType
bellhop ray,common object request broker,underwater network research,corba middleware,underwater acoustic network performance,underwater channel,physical layer,software-defined modem,underwater acoustic communication network,new underwater network simulator,channel model,real physical layer,underwater communication network simulator,communication,fsk,protocols,simulation,networks,acoustics,corba,underwater
Middleware,Underwater acoustic communication,Computer science,Common Object Request Broker Architecture,Computer network,Network simulation,Real-time computing,Software,Physical layer,Object request broker,Underwater
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dajun Sun1126.72
Youwen Zhang210.69
Jigang Dong300.34