Underwater Acoustic Communications and Protocols: Challenges, Trends and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Acoustics and Vibrations".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editor
Interests: underwater acoustic communication; wireless communication; array signal processing; wireless network
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Dear Colleague,
In recent years, the research interest of theories and technologies related to underwater communication and networking has been continuously increased, which has promoted the development of related fields. While people are striving to improve the performance of underwater acoustic and optical communication and networks, they are also actively exploring underwater communication theories and methods based on other media (such as electricity and magnetism), studying cross-media(water-air) multimodal communication networks to enhance the performance of underwater communication systems, and implementing cross-domain networking between underwater and surface areas to expand the interconnection scope of underwater networks. At the same time, emerging intelligent technologies are constantly being applied to underwater communication networks to improve the adaptive capabilities of the systems in complex and dynamic marine environments.
This special issue is organized to facilitate the understanding of the current situation in the above-mentioned fields and the sharing of achievements, promote the research and development of theories and technologies for underwater communication networks, and drive the development of related industries. Manuscripts are solicited from different perspectives, including frontier reviews, key technologies, innovative research and engineering application achievements of underwater communication networks.
Prof. Dr. Fangjiong Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- underwater communication theory and technology
- cross-media integrated communication and networking
- architectures, methods and protocol stacks of cross-domain networking
- collaborative resource management, allocation and scheduling
- applications of intelligent technologies in underwater communication networks
- application of underwater commnucation platforms and prototype
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