Underwater Sensor Networking

Abstract

Underwater Sensor Networks are highly distributed self-organized systems. I highlight potential applications to off-shore oilfields for seismic monitoring, equipment monitoring, and underwater robotics. Its 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. In this survey paper, I provide a full view of the studies in this area.