Research Challenges and Applications for Underwater Sensor Networking

John Heidemann, Wei Ye, Jack Wills, Affan Syed, and Yuan Li
USC/Information Sciences Institute

Abstract

This paper explores applications and challenges for underwater sensor networks. We highlight potential applications to off-shore oilfields for seismic monitoring, equipment monitoring, and underwater robotics. We identify research directions in short-range acoustic communications, MAC, time synchronization, and localization protocols for high-latency acoustic networks, long-duration network sleeping, and application-level data scheduling. We describe our preliminary design on short-range acoustic communications hardware, and summarize results of high-latency time synchronization.

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Heidemann06a

John Heidemann, Wei Ye, Jack Wills, Affan Syed, and Yuan Li. Research Challenges and Applications for Underwater Sensor Networking. In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 228-235. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, IEEE. April, 2006. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann06a.html>.

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