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 communication hardware, and summarize results of high-latency time synchronization

Date

2006

Authors

John Heidemann, Wei Ye, Jack Wills, Affan Syed, Yuan Li

Source

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2006. WCNC 2006.

Volume

1

Pages

228-235

Publisher

IEEE