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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2017.54.4.3

Study on Energy Efficient Mobility-MAC Protocol for Underwater Networks  

Son, Woong (Department of Electronics Engineering Chungnam National University)
Jang, Youn-Seon (Department of Electronics Engineering Chungnam National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.54, no.4, 2017 , pp. 3-9 More about this Journal
Abstract
Due to difficulties of continuous electric power provision to underwater communication nodes, the efficient power usage is highly required in underwater network protocol. In this paper, we studied the energy efficient MAC(Medium Access Control) protocol for underwater network supporting mobile nodes such as UUV(Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) and AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle). The mobile nodes could waste the electric power in vain when the receiver moves out of the radio propagation coverage during the data exchange and thus the transmitted data fails in reaching the receiver. Expecially, such a failure is much more obvious in underwater acoustic channels since the propagation delay is about $10^5$ times slower than in terrestrial radio channels. This proposed mobility-MAC controls the data dropping stochastically in the Dropping Zone by considering the receiver's location and moving velocity. In conclusion, this selective dropping method not only improves latency and throughput by reducing invalid droppings but also boosts power efficiency by valid droppings.
Keywords
Underwater Communication; MAC; Mobility; Energy Efficiency;
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