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RIPT: A Receiver-Initiated Reservation-Based Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks

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RIPT: A Receiver-Initiated Reservation-Based Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks
Although there are many MAC protocols that have been proposed for terrestrial wireless networks with a wide variety of aspects, these protocols cannot be applied directly in underwater acoustic networks due to the channel's uniqueness of having low data rate and long propagation delay. In order to achieve a high throughput, both characteristics must be taken into account in the MAC design. We propose a random access MAC protocol for multi-hop underwater acoustic networks based on receiver reservation, which we shall call the "Receiverinitiated Packet Train" (RIPT) protocol. It is a handshakingbased protocol that addresses the channel's long propagation delay characteristic by utilizing receiver-initiated reservations, as well as by coordinating packets from multiple neighboring nodes to arrive in a packet train manner at the receiver. Our simulation results have confirmed that the RIPT protocol can achieve our goal of having high and stable throughput performance wh...
Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where JSAC
Authors Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua
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