Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Advances and Future Trends in Physical, MAC and Routing Layers

This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current research on underwater wireless sensor networks, focusing on the lower layers of the communication stack, and envisions future trends and challenges. It analyzes the current state-of-the-art on the physical, medium access control an...

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Main Authors: Climent, Salvador, Sanchez, Antonio, Capella, Juan Vicente, Meratnia, Nirvana, Serrano, Juan Jose
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3926587/
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spelling pubmed-39265872014-02-18 Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Advances and Future Trends in Physical, MAC and Routing Layers Climent, Salvador Sanchez, Antonio Capella, Juan Vicente Meratnia, Nirvana Serrano, Juan Jose Article This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current research on underwater wireless sensor networks, focusing on the lower layers of the communication stack, and envisions future trends and challenges. It analyzes the current state-of-the-art on the physical, medium access control and routing layers. It summarizes their security threads and surveys the currently proposed studies. Current envisioned niches for further advances in underwater networks research range from efficient, low-power algorithms and modulations to intelligent, energy-aware routing and medium access control protocols. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2014-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3926587/ /pubmed/24399155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140100795 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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author Climent, Salvador
Sanchez, Antonio
Capella, Juan Vicente
Meratnia, Nirvana
Serrano, Juan Jose
spellingShingle Climent, Salvador
Sanchez, Antonio
Capella, Juan Vicente
Meratnia, Nirvana
Serrano, Juan Jose
Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Advances and Future Trends in Physical, MAC and Routing Layers
author_facet Climent, Salvador
Sanchez, Antonio
Capella, Juan Vicente
Meratnia, Nirvana
Serrano, Juan Jose
author_sort Climent, Salvador
title Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Advances and Future Trends in Physical, MAC and Routing Layers
title_short Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Advances and Future Trends in Physical, MAC and Routing Layers
title_full Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Advances and Future Trends in Physical, MAC and Routing Layers
title_fullStr Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Advances and Future Trends in Physical, MAC and Routing Layers
title_full_unstemmed Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Advances and Future Trends in Physical, MAC and Routing Layers
title_sort underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks: advances and future trends in physical, mac and routing layers
description This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current research on underwater wireless sensor networks, focusing on the lower layers of the communication stack, and envisions future trends and challenges. It analyzes the current state-of-the-art on the physical, medium access control and routing layers. It summarizes their security threads and surveys the currently proposed studies. Current envisioned niches for further advances in underwater networks research range from efficient, low-power algorithms and modulations to intelligent, energy-aware routing and medium access control protocols.
publisher Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
publishDate 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3926587/
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