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MOBICOM
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Reconfigurable acoustic modem for underwater sensor networks
There is a growing interest for underwater sensor networks where long term monitoring of water masses around the world for scientific, environmental, commercial, and military reas...
Ethem Mutlu Sözer, Milica Stojanovic
WONS
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
Challenges and implications of using ultrasonic communications in intra-body area networks
Abstract— Body area networks (BANs) promise to enable revolutionary biomedical applications by wirelessly interconnecting devices implanted or worn by humans. However, BAN wirele...
Laura Galluccio, Tommaso Melodia, Sergio Palazzo, ...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
MACA-U: A Media Access Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks
—Unlike terrestrial wireless communication which uses radio waves, underwater communication relies on acoustic waves. The long latency and limited bandwidth pose great challenges...
Hai-Heng Ng, Wee-Seng Soh, Mehul Motani
VTC
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
MACA-MN: A MACA-Based MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks with Packet Train for Multiple Neighbors
Abstract— Unlike the terrestrial wireless networks that utilize the radio channel, underwater networks use the acoustic channel, which poses research challenges in the medium acc...
Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua
SUTC
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Hardware Implementation of Symbol Synchronization for Underwater FSK
—— Symbol synchronization is a critical component in the design of an underwater acoustic modem. Without accurate symbol synchronization, higher bit error rates incur thus reduc...
Ying Li, Xing Zhang, Bridget Benson, Ryan Kastner