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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Aloha-Based MAC Protocols with Collision Avoidance for Underwater Acoustic Networks
— Unlike terrestrial networks that mainly rely on radio waves for communications, underwater networks utilize acoustic waves, which have comparatively lower loss and longer range...
Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
MACA-U: A Media Access Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks
—Unlike terrestrial wireless communication which uses radio waves, underwater communication relies on acoustic waves. The long latency and limited bandwidth pose great challenges...
Hai-Heng Ng, Wee-Seng Soh, Mehul Motani
MOBICOM
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A MAC protocol for ad-hoc underwater acoustic sensor networks
A medium access control (MAC) protocol is proposed that is suitable for non-synchronized ad-hoc networks, and in particular for the energy-constrained underwater acoustic networks...
Borja Peleato, Milica Stojanovic
JSAC
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Comparison and Evaluation of the T-Lohi MAC for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Abstract--This paper introduces T-Lohi, a new class of distributed and energy-efficient media-access protocols (MAC) for underwater acoustic sensor networks (UWSN). MAC design for ...
Affan A. Syed, Wei Ye, John S. Heidemann
JSAC
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
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 underw...
Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua