SBMAC: Smart Blocking MAC Mechanism for Variable UW-ASN (Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network) Environment

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SBMAC: Smart Blocking MAC Mechanism for Variable UW-ASN (Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network) Environment

Soo-Young Shin , Jung-Il Namgung and Soo-Hyun Park *

The Graduate School of Business IT, Kookmin University, 861-1 Jeongneung-Dong Sungbuk-Gu, Seoul 136-702, Korea

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Received: 10 November 2009; in revised form: 14 December 2009 / Accepted: 1 January 2010 / Published: 12 January 2010

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

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Abstract: In this paper, several MAC scheduling methods applicable to an underwater environment are proposed. Besides, a new marine communication system model was proposed to improve the reliability of the proposed SBMAC method. The scheme minimizes transmission of control frames except for data transmission and various transmission methods and ACK methods can be used together. Simulation models are set indices and analysis of the underwater environment is established to conduct reliable simulations. Consequently, the performance improvement of the proposed method is verified with respect to delay time, data transmission rate, memory utilization, energy efficiency, etc.

Keywords: Underwater-Acoustic Sensor Network (UW-ASN); Medium Access Control (MAC); Smart Blocking MAC (SBMAC)

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Shin, S.-Y.; Namgung, J.-I.; Park, S.-H. SBMAC: Smart Blocking MAC Mechanism for Variable UW-ASN (Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network) Environment. Sensors 2010, 10, 501-525.

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Shin S.-Y., Namgung J.-I., Park S.-H. SBMAC: Smart Blocking MAC Mechanism for Variable UW-ASN (Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network) Environment. Sensors. 2010; 10(1):501-525.

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Shin, Soo-Young; Namgung, Jung-Il; Park, Soo-Hyun. 2010. "SBMAC: Smart Blocking MAC Mechanism for Variable UW-ASN (Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network) Environment." Sensors 10, no. 1: 501-525.

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