TY - GEN
T1 - On TDMA based hybrid channel MAC protocol for underwater sensor networks
AU - Alam, Ibrahim Ibne
AU - Hossain, Farhad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/2/13
Y1 - 2017/2/13
N2 - Underwater sensor networks play a great role in research areas by gathering knowledge about the inaccessible parts of the underwater. The sensory nodes in the network aid us by performing real time data acquisition which is needed to forecast different natural calamities. However communication in underwater with high success rate is quiet challenging because of the nature of the environment. Due to the high attenuation of EM wave in water, large amount of power is needed to communicate with EM waves. Therefore acoustic waves are mainly used for underwater communication. However, the combination of the EM and acoustic waves can be a better choice for that purpose. Here we have proposed a combination of both the EM and acoustic waves for our MAC protocol. The model uses the EM in the control channel whereas the acoustic wave carries the data. The control channel uses TDMA to avoid any control packet collision and thus making sure that no data packet collision will occur. To our best knowledge this type of proposal with EM wave has not yet been stated anywhere else. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves higher throughput than other MAC schemes examined in this paper.
AB - Underwater sensor networks play a great role in research areas by gathering knowledge about the inaccessible parts of the underwater. The sensory nodes in the network aid us by performing real time data acquisition which is needed to forecast different natural calamities. However communication in underwater with high success rate is quiet challenging because of the nature of the environment. Due to the high attenuation of EM wave in water, large amount of power is needed to communicate with EM waves. Therefore acoustic waves are mainly used for underwater communication. However, the combination of the EM and acoustic waves can be a better choice for that purpose. Here we have proposed a combination of both the EM and acoustic waves for our MAC protocol. The model uses the EM in the control channel whereas the acoustic wave carries the data. The control channel uses TDMA to avoid any control packet collision and thus making sure that no data packet collision will occur. To our best knowledge this type of proposal with EM wave has not yet been stated anywhere else. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves higher throughput than other MAC schemes examined in this paper.
KW - Electromagnetic wave
KW - Medium access control
KW - Time division multiple access
KW - Underwater sensor networks
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UR - https://www.proceedings.com/content/033/033601webtoc.pdf
U2 - 10.1109/ICECE.2016.7853985
DO - 10.1109/ICECE.2016.7853985
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85016175771
T3 - Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2016
SP - 574
EP - 577
BT - Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2016
PB - IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 9th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2016
Y2 - 20 December 2016 through 22 December 2016
ER -