Abstract

This report summarizes our research directions in 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 highlatency acoustic networks, long-duration network sleeping, and application-level data scheduling.

Date

January 1, 1970

Authors

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

Source

Proceedings of the Technical Report ISI-TR-2005-603, USC/Information Sciences Institute