Underwater wireless sensor networks consist of a certain number of sensors and vehicles that interact to collect data and perform collaborative tasks. The sensor network consists of static and mobile underwater sensor nodes. The nodes communicate point-to-point using a novel high-speed optical communication system integrated into the TinyOS stack or other small operating system, and they broadc...

Time synchronization is very crucial for the implementation of energy constricted underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN). The purpose of this paper is to present a time synchronization algorithm which is suitable to UWSN. Although several time synchronization protocols have been developed, most of them tend to break down when implemented on mobile underwater sensor networks. In this paper, ...

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have widely deployed in marine investigation and ocean exploration in recent years. As the fundamental information, their position information is not only for data validity but also for many real-world applications. Therefore, it is critical for the AUV to have the underwater localization capability. This report is mainly devoted to outline the recent advan...

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...

High cost and high power consumption of underwater acoustic modem have limited the applications and researches of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN). This paper presents a node architecture and its low-cost realization to deal with such problems as high cost, high power consumption, large volume, and relative localization in a dense UWSN. Some fundamental functions like short range unde...

Through adding the trusted protocol, trusted control and management mechanism on existing network architectures, a protocol architecture for trusted underwater acoustic sensor networks is presented, and the constitutes and functions of each part are described. The implementation model of trusted underwater acoustic sensor networks protocol is built, fundamental function that ensure the protocol...

In recent years underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have emerged as one of the most popular researched areas in the networking field due to its numerous applications in ocean exploration, underwater surveillance and pollution detection. With specific characteristics such as higher delay in transmission, continuously moving nodes, limited storage and battery, most of the routing protocol...

Underwater acoustic network is one of the rapidly growing areas of research and finds different applications for monitoring and collecting various data for environmental studies. The communication among dynamic nodes and high error probability in an acoustic medium forced to maximize energy consumption in Underwater Sensor Networks (USN) than in traditional sensor networks. Developing energy-ef...