A Layout Strategy for Distributed Barrage Jamming against Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Please find enclosed my report.
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Author Response
Thank you for your constructive comments. We have modified our article as follows:
Point 1:The authors should improve the formatting of equations in the text (the font of equations should have the same size as the text).
Response 1:According to your suggestion, we have formatted the size of all the equations in the text into 10 pt (as same as the text).
Point 2: Lines 19 and 46: Please correct the typos "an heuristic algorithm" and "an UASN".
Response 2: We have corrected all the typos into "an heuristic algorithm" and "an UASN" in the manuscript (line 16, 19, 46, 76, 164, 221, 311).
Point 3: Lines 129 and 133: Write rather "firstly, secondly" than A1 and A2.
Response 3: As the reviewer's suggestion, we have modified the wording "A1, A2" into "firstly, secondly" in line 132 and 136. And we have modified the related writing in line 154 and 244.
Point 4: Please place Table 1 at the beginning of Section 2.
Response 4: We have modified the position of Table 1 and placed it at the beginning of Section 2 (line 108, 109) and adjusted the corresponding format (line 110, 144).
Point 5: L289 et 290: Remove "Dr".
Response 5: According to your instruction, we have removed "Dr" in line 289.
Point 6: Line 311: Please correct the typo "an UNSN".
Response 6: As the second comments, we have corrected all the typos in this manuscript.
Point 7: Table 2 and following: Please put the units in parentheses (for example: "(in m)").
Response 7: As your suggestion, we have modified all the units in parentheses in Tabel 2-5.
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper is a research paper and is on the scope of the journal.
The technical content of the paper and scientific rigour are good solid work of notable importance.
The title are concise. The abstract have 210 words, and is a single paragraph that follow the style of structured abstracts.
All figures have high quality.
Authors explain the structure of the paper at the end of section 1.
Required modification:
In Section 1, "Introduction", the references that appear in the first 3 paragraphs, from 1 to 9, have an incorrect font size. Authors should correct it.
Authors should review all references and follow the MDPI’s style for citations and references lists that are widely based on the style used by the American Chemical Society.
Authors can find the "Reference List and Citations Style Guide for MDPI Journals" at the following link:
https://mdpi-res.com/data/mdpi_references_guide_v5.pdf
For example, reference 4, instead of looking like this:
- Song X, Willett P, Zhou S, et al. The MIMO radar and jammer games[J]. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2011, 60(2): 687-699.
It should look like this:
- Song, X.; Willett, P.; Zhou, S.; Luh, P. B. The MIMO Radar and Jammer Games. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2012, 60(2), 687-699, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2169251
For example, reference 4, instead of looking like this:
- Deligiannis A, Rossetti G, Panoui A, et al. Power allocation game between a radar network and multiple jammers[C]//2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf). IEEE, 2016: 1-5.
It should look like this:
- Deligiannis, A; Rossetti, G; Panoui, A; Lambotharan, S.; Chambers, J. A. Power allocation game between a radar network and multiple jammers. 2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf), IEEE, Philadelphia, PA,USA, 2-6 May 2016, pp. 1-5.
Review all references.
Moreover, some important references are missing and must be cited to provide the reader a good background:
Sendra, S; Lloret, J.; Jimenez, J.M.; Rodrigues, J. J.P.C. Underwater Communications for Video Surveillance Systems at 2.4 GHz. Sensors, 2016, 16(10), 1769; doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/s16101769
Sendra, S; Lloret, J.; Jimenez, J.M.; Parra, L. Underwater Acoustic Modems. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2016, 16(11), 4063 - 4071, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2434890
Author Response
Thanks for your nice suggestions. We have revised the manuscript as follows：
Point 1: In Section 1, "Introduction", the references that appear in the first 3 paragraphs, from 1 to 9, have an incorrect font size. Authors should correct it.
Authors should review all references and follow the MDPI's style for citations and references lists that are widely based on the style used by the American Chemical Society.
Response 1: According to your instruction, we have corrected the format of all the citations that appear in this manuscript into the MDPI's style. And we have modified the references lists according to the style used by the American Chemical Society.
Point 2: Some important references are missing and must be cited to provide the reader a good background.
Response 2: According to your suggestion, we have added relevant literature citations in "Introduction" (line 31). The references are:
3. Sendra, S; Lloret, J.; Jimenez, J.M.; Parra, L. Underwater Acoustic Modems. IEEE Sensors Journal 2016, 16(11), 4063 - 4071, doi:10.1109/JSEN.2015.2434890.
28. Sendra, S; Lloret, J.; Jimenez, J.M.; Rodrigues, J. J.P.C. Underwater Communications for Video Surveillance Systems at 2.4 GHz. Sensors 2016, 16(10), 1769; doi:3390/s16101769.
