UCMAC: A Cooperative MAC Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

UCMAC: A Cooperative MAC Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper proposes a cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) named UCMAC, which fundamentally benefits from cooperative communication. In UCMAC, a source identifies cooperators and provides its destination with a list of the cooperators while...

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Main Authors: Hee-won Kim, Tae Ho Im, Ho-Shin Cho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-06-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
underwater wireless sensor network
automatic repeat request
medium access control
cooperative communication
spatial diversity
cooperative region
cooperative ARQ
cooperative MAC
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/6/1969

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