Journal
SENSORS
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages 11343-11356Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s111211343
Keywords
multimedia streaming; underwater sensor networks; MAC; WiFi; Zigbee; acoustic distributed surveillance
Funding
- Italian National Project Wireless multiplatfOrm MIMO active access netwoRks for QoS-demanding muLtimedia Delivery (WORLD) [2007R989S]
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The interest in monitoring applications using underwater sensor networks has been growing in recent years. The severe communication restrictions imposed by underwater channels make that efficient monitoring be a challenging task. Though a lot of research has been conducted on underwater sensor networks, there are only few concrete applications to a real-world case study. In this work, hence, we propose a general three tier architecture leveraging low cost wireless technologies for acoustic communications between underwater sensors and standard technologies, Zigbee and Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), for water surface communications. We have selected a suitable Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, after making a comparison with some common MAC protocols. Thus the performance of the overall system in terms of Signals Discarding Rate (SDR), signalling delay at the surface gateway as well as the percentage of true detection have been evaluated by simulation, pointing out good results which give evidence in applicability's favour.
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