Low-Power Acoustic Modem for Dense Underwater Sensor Networks
Jack Wills, Wei Ye, and John HeidemannUSC/Information Sciences Institute
Abstract
Significant progress has been made in terrestrial sensor networks to revolutionize sensing and data collection. To bring the concept of long-lived, dense sensor networks to the underwater environment, there is a compelling need to develop low-cost and low-power acoustic modems for short-range communications. This paper presents our work in designing and developing such a modem. We describe our design rationale followed by details of both hardware and software development. We have performed preliminary tests with transducers for in-air communications.Availability
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Reference
- Wills06a
- Jack Wills, Wei Ye, and John Heidemann. Low-Power Acoustic Modem for Dense Underwater Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet) , pp. 79-85. Los Angeles, California, USA, ACM. September, 2006. <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Wills06a.html>.
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year = "2006",
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