Title
Software-defined underwater acoustic networking platform and its applications
Abstract
As underwater communications adopt acoustics as the primary modality, we are confronting several unique challenges such as highly limited bandwidth, severe fading, and long propagation delay. To cope with these, many MAC protocols and PHY layer techniques have been proposed. In this paper, we present a research platform that allows developers to easily implement and compare their protocols in an underwater network and configure them at runtime. We have built our platform using widely supported software that has been successfully used in terrestrial radio and network development. The flexibility of development tools such as software defined radio, TinyOS, and Linux have provided the ability for rapid growth in the community. Our platform adapts some of these tools to work well with the underwater environment while maintaining flexibility, ultimately providing an end-to-end networking approach for underwater acoustic development. To show its applicability, we further implement and evaluate channel allocation and time synchronization protocols on our platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.adhoc.2015.01.010
Ad Hoc Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Underwater acoustic networking,Software defined radio,Time synchronization,Channel allocation protocols
Underwater acoustic communication,Propagation delay,Software-defined radio,Computer science,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Physical layer,Software,Channel allocation schemes,Underwater,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
C
1570-8705
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.67
12
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dustin Torres1404.78
Jonathan Friedman258454.98
Thomas Schmid3151.04
mani b srivastava4684.90
Youngtae Noh519419.00
Mario Gerla6164652117.01