A Hierarchical Communication Architecture for Oceanic Surveillance Applications
The interest in monitoring applications using underwater sensor networks has been growing in recent years. The severe communication restrictions imposed by underwater channels make that efficient monitoring be a challenging task. Though a lot of research has been conducted on underwater sensor netwo...
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| author | Romano Fantacci Andrea Sacco Francesco Chiti Alvaro Suarez Elsa Macias |
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| description | The interest in monitoring applications using underwater sensor networks has been growing in recent years. The severe communication restrictions imposed by underwater channels make that efficient monitoring be a challenging task. Though a lot of research has been conducted on underwater sensor networks, there are only few concrete applications to a real-world case study. In this work, hence, we propose a general three tier architecture leveraging low cost wireless technologies for acoustic communications between underwater sensors and standard technologies, Zigbee and Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), for water surface communications. We have selected a suitable Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, after making a comparison with some common MAC protocols. Thus the performance of the overall system in terms of Signals Discarding Rate (SDR), signalling delay at the surface gateway as well as the percentage of true detection have been evaluated by simulation, pointing out good results which give evidence in applicability’s favour. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc9010f229644ce4a3f2a71dc53109a12022-12-22T04:00:16ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202011-11-011112113431135610.3390/s111211343A Hierarchical Communication Architecture for Oceanic Surveillance ApplicationsRomano FantacciAndrea SaccoFrancesco ChitiAlvaro SuarezElsa MaciasThe interest in monitoring applications using underwater sensor networks has been growing in recent years. The severe communication restrictions imposed by underwater channels make that efficient monitoring be a challenging task. Though a lot of research has been conducted on underwater sensor networks, there are only few concrete applications to a real-world case study. In this work, hence, we propose a general three tier architecture leveraging low cost wireless technologies for acoustic communications between underwater sensors and standard technologies, Zigbee and Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), for water surface communications. We have selected a suitable Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, after making a comparison with some common MAC protocols. Thus the performance of the overall system in terms of Signals Discarding Rate (SDR), signalling delay at the surface gateway as well as the percentage of true detection have been evaluated by simulation, pointing out good results which give evidence in applicability’s favour.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/11/12/11343/multimedia streamingunderwater sensor networksMACWiFiZigbeeacoustic distributed surveillance |
| spellingShingle | Romano Fantacci Andrea Sacco Francesco Chiti Alvaro Suarez Elsa Macias A Hierarchical Communication Architecture for Oceanic Surveillance Applications Sensors multimedia streaming underwater sensor networks MAC WiFi Zigbee acoustic distributed surveillance |
| title | A Hierarchical Communication Architecture for Oceanic Surveillance Applications |
| title_full | A Hierarchical Communication Architecture for Oceanic Surveillance Applications |
| title_fullStr | A Hierarchical Communication Architecture for Oceanic Surveillance Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Hierarchical Communication Architecture for Oceanic Surveillance Applications |
| title_short | A Hierarchical Communication Architecture for Oceanic Surveillance Applications |
| title_sort | hierarchical communication architecture for oceanic surveillance applications |
| topic | multimedia streaming underwater sensor networks MAC WiFi Zigbee acoustic distributed surveillance |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/11/12/11343/ |
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