An Intelligent Management Platform for Underwater Acoustic Modem

Abstract

Acoustic modem is one of the key components of underwater acoustic communication, in order to adapt to the complex and changeable acoustic environment and complete the underwater sensor network, an intelligent modem management platform is needed to achieve the parameter adjustment and the network protocol operation, while the commercial underwater acoustic modems which are already in use are hard to meet this requirement. In this paper, we designed and implemented an intelligent underwater acoustic modem management platform, based on the chip ARM6410. The platform supports the executable program written by users, and can complete the functions of modem state control, data storage and forwarding, and network protocol implementation. Experiments on testing capability of the platform were conducted in the yellow sea, results show that the management platform performs well.