In tuna farming, turbidity measurement is highly important since one of the cause of death of tuna is a choking death due to muddy water. In this paper, we consider to use visible light communication modules for estimation of turbidity in underwater environments. If these modules can be used as turbidity meters, additional introduction of dedicated turbidity meters is not necessary. In this pap...

In this paper we describe a security suite for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks comprising both fixed and mobile nodes. The security suite is composed of a secure routing protocol and a set of cryptographic primitives aimed at protecting the confidentiality and the integrity of underwater communication while taking into account the unique characteristics and constraints of the acoustic chann...

Underwater acoustic channels are band-limited and reverberant, posing many obstacles to reliable, phase-coherent acoustic communications. In terrestrial wireless sensor networks, the nodes use radio frequency (RF) to build up the communication. In underwater environments, due to water absorption, radio wave does not work well. Compared to radio waves, sound has superior propagation characterist...

In this paper, we propose an underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) named SOUNET where sensor nodes form and maintain a tree-topological network for data gathering in a self-organized manner. After network topology discovery via packet flooding, the sensor nodes consistently update their parent node to ensure the best connectivity by referring to the timevarying neighbor tables. Such a persi...