A Comprehensive Survey of Recent Simulation platforms for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

With the development of integrated land-sea-air network planning and underwater communication technology in the 6G network, there are more and more researches on underwater communication. The underwater wireless communication simulation platform provides a simulation environment for expensive ocean and underwater experiments, and helps researchers test and validate underwater communication equipment and network protocols. So far, no suitable underwater simulation platform has been developed to conduct efficient, low-cost and accurate simulations to verify the accuracy of the research. In this article, we first introduce an idealized complete structure and introduce the key modules. Secondly, we investigate and analyze the recent simulation software platforms and give suggestions for use. Finally, we discuss the technical direction in which the platform can be improved in the future, in the hope that a more user-friendly platform will emerge.