{"title":"D-sync: Doppler-based time synchronization for mobile underwater sensor networks","authors":"Feng Lu, Diba Mirza, C. Schurgers","doi":"10.1145/1868812.1868815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1868812.1868815","url":null,"abstract":"Time synchronization is an essential service in underwater networks, required for many functionalities such as MAC, sleep-scheduling, localization, and time-stamping of sensor events. However, there exist two fundamental challenges to underwater synchronization, namely, large propagation delays and substantial node mobility during the synchronization process. While existing underwater time sync solutions have been proposed to address these challenges, they rely on heavy signaling, which is undesirable due to high energy costs. In this paper, we introduce a powerful new approach that incorporates physical layer information, namely an estimate of the Doppler shift. Large Doppler shift has been identified as a major challenge to underwater communication, and current systems implement sophisticated solutions to estimate and track such Doppler shift for each data exchange. While an impediment to communication, we will show that the Doppler shift contains highly useful information that can be leveraged to greatly improve time synchronization. Specifically, it provides an indication of the relative motion between nodes. Our new protocol, called D-sync, strategically exploits this feature to address the timing uncertainty due to node mobility. As such, D-sync can handle substantial mobility, without making any assumptions about the underlying motion, and without extensive signaling. Simulation results show that D-sync significantly outperforms existing time synchronization both in terms of accuracy and energy.","PeriodicalId":223476,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Underwater Networks","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122008095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliable geocasting for underwater acoustic sensor networks","authors":"Baozhi Chen, D. Pompili","doi":"10.1145/1868812.1868830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1868812.1868830","url":null,"abstract":"UnderWater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UW-ASNs) [1] are envisioned to enable applications for oceanographic data collection, environmental monitoring, navigation, and tactical surveillance. Geocasting, which is the transmission of packet(s) to nodes located in a certain geographic region, is becoming a crucial communication primitive for these applications. In UW-ASNs, geocasting may be required to assign tasks to underwater vehicles or to query sensor nodes in a certain region.","PeriodicalId":223476,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Underwater Networks","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131307553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Network coding to combat packet loss in underwater networks","authors":"M. Chitre, Wee-Seng Soh","doi":"10.1145/1868812.1868817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1868812.1868817","url":null,"abstract":"Channel variability and a high level of ambient noise lead to significant probability of packet loss in many underwater networks. Techniques based on acknowledgements and re-transmissions (such as ARQ) can be used to build robust networks over the unreliable links between underwater nodes. An alternative solution based on erasure codes can also be used to combat the packet loss. However, both solutions rely on a node re-transmitting information originating at that node. We propose an alternative solution based on network coding, where nodes transmit packets which are composed partially from information originating at that node, and partially from information received by that node from other nodes. The intuition behind this solution is to effectively route the information over good paths in the network rather than to simply rely on re-transmission of the information by the originating nodes. In this paper, we show that our proposed solution indeed performs better than the acknowledgment and erasure coding based solutions, and has the potential to effectively combat the high packet loss experienced by many underwater networks.","PeriodicalId":223476,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Underwater Networks","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124598907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contention analysis of MAC protocols that count","authors":"A. Syed, J. Heidemann","doi":"10.1145/1868812.1868814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1868812.1868814","url":null,"abstract":"The key aspect in the design of any contention-based medium access control (MAC) protocol is the mechanism to measure and resolve simultaneous contention. Generally, terrestrial wireless MACs can only observe success or collision of a contention attempt through carrier sense. An implicit estimate of the number of contenders occurs through repeated observation and changing back-off contention window. Recent work in underwater MAC protocols suggest there it is possible to directly count the number of contenders by exploiting the spatio-temporal uncertainty inherent to high-latency underwater acoustic medium. Prior work has shown how to use counting in underwater MACs, and how to optimize contention windows in radio MACs. In this paper, we quantify bounds to convergence time for MAC protocols employing exact contender counting. We show that perfect counting allows contention to converge quickly, independent of network density, with an asymptotic limit of 3.6 contention rounds on average. We confirm this analysis with simulation of a specific underwater MAC protocol, and suggest the opportunity for the results to generalize for any radio-based MACs that estimate contenders.","PeriodicalId":223476,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Underwater Networks","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127823853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carrick Detweiler, Marek Doniec, I. Vasilescu, Elizabeth Basha, D. Rus
{"title":"Autonomous depth adjustment for underwater sensor networks","authors":"Carrick Detweiler, Marek Doniec, I. Vasilescu, Elizabeth Basha, D. Rus","doi":"10.1145/1868812.1868824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1868812.1868824","url":null,"abstract":"To fully understand the ocean environment requires sensing the full water column. Utilizing a depth adjustment system on an underwater sensor network provides this while also improving global sensing and communications. This paper presents a depth adjustment system for waters of up to 50m deep that connects to the AquaNode sensor network. We performed experiments characterizing the system and demonstrating its functionality. We discuss the application of this device in improving acoustic communication.","PeriodicalId":223476,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Underwater Networks","volume":"1425 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125416403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Friedman, Dustin Torres, T. Schmid, J. Dong, M. Srivastava
{"title":"A biomimetic quasi-static electric field physical channel for underwater ocean networks","authors":"J. Friedman, Dustin Torres, T. Schmid, J. Dong, M. Srivastava","doi":"10.1145/1868812.1868819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1868812.1868819","url":null,"abstract":"Nature has had millions of years to develop and optimize life in the ocean. Nocturnal oceanic animals and those that live at depth cannot rely upon optical notions of vision to navigate, hunt, or avoid predators. Instead, many rely upon an electroreceptive capability achieved through a dense grid of electric field (Voltage) sensors. In this work, we develop and characterize an artificial system which seeks to mimic this capability. The detection range of our resulting prototype was ≈ 5cm. The position accuracy in the middle of the transmit axis was ± 5cm after calibration.","PeriodicalId":223476,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Underwater Networks","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125106478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joint channel estimation and data recovery for high-rate underwater acoustic communications with multi-carrier modulation","authors":"A. Morozov, L. Freitag, J. Preisig","doi":"10.1145/1868812.1868821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1868812.1868821","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-carrier modulation (MCM) has a significant potential for achieving high bit rates over multipath-distorted (frequency selective) channels and provides both power and processing efficiency. Each frequency channel has relatively low delay spread when measured in symbol units and can be equalized with low-complexity algorithms and simplified array processing. The reduction of the ISI span in each sub-channel allows for the application of sophisticated soft decision decoders optimal for joint channel estimation and data recovery such as maximum-likelihood sequence detectors (MLSD) and adaptive BCJR MAP algorithm. The combination of pre-processing channel response-shortening equalization and joint channel and data recovery were tested in shallow water acoustic communications experiments and showed very good performance.","PeriodicalId":223476,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Underwater Networks","volume":"528 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133432557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliable transport and storage protocol with fountain codes for underwater acoustic sensor networks","authors":"Rui Cao, Liuqing Yang","doi":"10.1145/1868812.1868826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1868812.1868826","url":null,"abstract":"Due to high energy efficiency and fast data query, data-centric storage (DCS) is a promising technique for underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASN). However, the harsh sea environment poses new challenges to the design of underwater DCS protocols. First, because of long propagation delay and unreliably data links of underwater acoustic communications, long-distance multihop reliable data transport needs to be investigated. Secondly, due to the high node failure probability in the unattended UASNs, data reliability demands better protection. To address these two issues together, a fountain codes based reliable transport and storage (RTS) protocol is proposed in this paper. In the RTS protocol, a distributed fountain coding scheme is designed to facilitate reliable data delivery and multiple acknowledgements are adopted to ensure the control message reliability. In addition, to guarantee uniform data reliability, we devise a distributed storage scheme with concatenated fountain codes. Analyses are provided to reveal the performance of the proposed RTS protocol, which include storage reliability, energy consumption and number of retransmissions.","PeriodicalId":223476,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Underwater Networks","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114365935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An OFDM based MAC protocol for underwater acoustic networks","authors":"Zhong Zhou, S. Le, Jun-hong Cui","doi":"10.1145/1868812.1868818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1868812.1868818","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate OFDM based MAC protocols for underwater acoustic networks. Due to the severe multi-path effects of underwater acoustic channels, the guard time between OFDM blocks becomes significant, which greatly degrades the system rate. In addition, the highly dynamic nature of underwater acoustic channels makes it hard to choose the optimal transmitting power and modulation mode. Furthermore, the bandwidth of most current OFDM modems is only around tens of kHz, which is much less than the available bandwidth in a network with short range communication links. All these challenges make existing OFDM based MAC protocols for designed terrestrial wireless networks unsuitable. In this work, we propose a new MAC protocol called TDM with FDM over OFDM MAC protocol (TFO-MAC), which smoothly couples TDM with FDM/OFDM for the uplink traffic in a cellular like underwater acoustic network. In TFO-MAC, the acoustic channel is divided into multiple sub-channels in frequency via FDM technology, and OFDM modulation is used in every sub-channel. In addition, time is partitioned into slots and every node can use different channels in different slots. Powerful base stations in the network are responsible for the dynamic channel assignment, power optimization and modulation method selection for all nodes in every slot. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer programming problem and propose an efficient greedy algorithm to solve it. Simulation results show that TFO-MAC can achieve high throughput with good fairness.","PeriodicalId":223476,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Underwater Networks","volume":"241 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116156108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}