CLAM &amp;#x2014; Collaborative embedded networks for submarine surveillance: An overview

Meratnia, Nirvana; Havinga, Paul J.M.; Casari, Paolo; Petrioli, Chiara; Grythe, Knut; Husøy, Thor; Zorzi, Michele

doi:10.1109/oceans-spain.2011.6003499

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“…We believe that an efficiently designed protocol stack for UWNs must consider using all types of transmission technologies, namely optical, RF, and acoustic [81]. The UWN nodes should be self-reconfigurable, depending on the transmission data-rate demands, neighboring nodes which they can communicate with using a particular type of technology, and target energy efficiency [82].…”

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A Survey of Underwater Wireless Communication Technologies

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Diniz

Campos

et al. 2016

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The increasing exploitation of natural resources under water, particularly in the sea, has ignited the development of many technological advances in the domains of environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, warfare, among others. In all these domains, underwater wireless communications play an important role, where the technologies available rely on radiofrequency, optical, and acoustic transmissions. This paper surveys key features inherent to these communication technologies, putting into perspective their technical aspects, current research challenges, and to-be-explored potential. I. INTRODUCTION Underwater wireless communications present new and distinct challenges when compared to wired and wireless communications through the atmosphere, requiring sophisticated communication devices to achieve relatively low transmission rates, even over short distances. Indeed, the underwater environment possesses a number of distinguishing features that make it unique and rather different from terrestrial radio propagation where traditional communication systems are deployed. Under water, several phenomena may influence communications, such as salt concentration, pressure, temperature, amount of light, winds and their effects on waves, just to mention a few [1], [2]. Despite all challenges, wireless communications certainly play an important role in practical underwater systems. Monitoring different phenomena in underwater environment is relevant in many different applications, such as oil and gas exploration, coastal security, environmental impact surveillance, navigation, and ocean-pollution control [3]. Specific examples include transmission of data among devices, such as AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) to AUV and buoy to AUV, particularly those employing wireless links. In fact, an entire underwater wireless communication network could

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A Survey of Underwater Wireless Communication Technologies

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“…The interest on Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) and on underwater robotics has largely increased in the past decade. This is a consequence of the fact that such enabling capabilities can support a wide range of emerging applications, including monitoring of the environment and critical infrastructures, coastline protection, measurement of underwater seismic and volcanic events [1], [2], to state only a few. For many of these applications the continuous monitoring of ocean processes is a must [3], [4].…”

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Deployment of a Persistent Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network: The CommsNet17 Experience

Petroccia

Sliwka

Grati

et al. 2018

2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans (OTO)

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This paper presents the experimental activities performed by the NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) during the CommsNet17 trial where a persistent Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network (UASN) was deployed. The CommsNet17 trial was held from the 27 th of November to the 6 th of December in the Gulf of La Spezia (IT), close to the CMRE premises, using the CMRE Littoral Ocean Observatory Network (LOON) as one of its key components. A network consisting of up to eleven nodes was deployed, including static and mobile assets. Various aspects related to persistent UASNs were addressed, including autonomous and distributed network discovery and node configuration, node localisation and navigation, self-adjustment of the network topology in support to the assigned tasks, underwater docking, wireless battery recharging and data offloading. The collected results show that the employed solutions were able to successfully complete all these tasks, thus demonstrating the effective deployment of a persistent, distributed and ad-hoc UASN.

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“…Underwater Acoustic Networks (UANs) are an enabling technology in a wide spectrum of different collaborative scenarios that find application to science, security, and commercial activities. The scenarios of interest include (among others) environmental monitoring, prediction of and reaction to natural disasters, surveillance for defence applications and port safety, off-shore oil and gas, aquaculture, geological and oceanographic science [2], [3]. Most of these applications require coverage of large areas where nodes cannot directly communicate with each other and appropriate routes have to be found to connect a given source to the intended destination.…”

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A hybrid routing protocol for underwater acoustic networks

Petroccia

Alves

2018

2018 17th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net)

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This paper presents a new packet-forwarding mechanism for underwater acoustic networks. The solution, termed MPR-Light, combines the modus operandi of the Multi-Point Relay (MPR) protocol and of the Enhanced Flooding (EFlood), both described in [1]. MPR-Light aims at providing the robustness of a flooding solution in the presence of unreliable and asymmetric acoustic links, while reducing the network load and energy consumption at each node. No periodic control messages are transmitted by each data source or relay nodes. Any additional control data used to find the best relay towards the final destination is appended to regular data packets. Similarly to MPR, relay nodes are selected according to (recent) historical information considering different metrics, i.e. link quality, link liveliness and symmetry. When no information is available at a node, the EFlood approach is used. The performance of MPR-Light has been compared with that of MPR and EFlood during the CommsNet13 sea trial, organised by the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) and conducted off the coast of the Palmaria island (La Spezia, Italy) in September 2013. A heterogeneous network of 12 nodes was deployed. Our results show that MPR-Light, using an hybrid strategy, is able to significantly reduce the overhead and energy consumption in the network while maintaining similar or better performance in terms of packet delivery ratio and end-to-end latency with respect to MPR and EFlood.

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CLAM — Collaborative embedded networks for submarine surveillance: An overview

Cited by 15 publications

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A Survey of Underwater Wireless Communication Technologies

A Survey of Underwater Wireless Communication Technologies

Deployment of a Persistent Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network: The CommsNet17 Experience

A hybrid routing protocol for underwater acoustic networks

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