An Adaptive MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks with Dynamic Traffic

Haodi Mei, Haiyan Wang, Xiaohong Shen, Weigang Bai

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Abstract

Underwater acoustic sensor network has attracted strong attention from both researchers and industry. While it is applied in underwater environment monitoring, the network traffic load always changes with the underwater environment. This brings new challengs to underwater acoustic sensor network protocols. Many existing works on TDMA-based MAC protocol focus on the traffic load fixed scenario and the slot assignment is based on the maximum traffic. It leads to inefficient use of channel resources. In this paper, we propose an adaptive MAC protocol for underwater acoustic sensor networks with dynamic traffic (AMPDT) to handle the dynamic traffic load issues. The slot assignment on sink node is based on the traffic estimation report from the sensor nodes. Simulation results show that our proposal can effectively improve the network throughput and reduce the end to end delay.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538648148
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Jan 2019
EventOCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEANS 2018 - Charleston, United States
Duration: 22 Oct 201825 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameOCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018

Conference

ConferenceOCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEANS 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCharleston
Period22/10/1825/10/18

Keywords

  • Dynamic traffic
  • Idle waiting time reducing
  • Traffic estimation
  • Variable-length slots

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