Internet of Underwater Things: Applications and Challenges
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2022) | Viewed by 3428
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ocean is an important place for human activities such as fishery and maritime transportation. As human activities in oceans continuously increase, the provisioning of high-performance, cost-effective and reliable communication network services in oceans becomes an important research topic. Since radio signals and optical signals do not propagate through long distances underwater, as they suffer from severe path losses and scattering with high frequency, acoustic waves appear to be a good choice. However, underwater acoustic links are significantly different from radio links in certain aspects, such as their low propagation speed, long transmission range, and limited bandwidth. The communication techniques and networking protocols successfully applied in radio networks cannot be directly extended to an acoustic network. Meanwhile, underwater devices are usually expensive and difficult to deploy. Hence, underwater internet access appears to be the most challenging issue in the application of maritime internet.
This Special Issue will focus on key theoretical and practical design issues for provisioning underwater internet access, as well as up-to-date underwater devices. Topics of interest in this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following keywords:
- Reliable underwater acoustic communication;
- Efficient short-range underwater wireless communication;
- Air–water boundary-crossing communication technologies;
- Energy-efficient network protocols for underwater dynamic networks;
- Architecture of maritime internet;
- Underwater sensing;
- Underwater positioning;
- Water surface gateway;
- High-performance underwater unmanned platforms;
- New application scenario of underwater networks.
Prof. Dr. Fangjiong Chen
Guest Editor
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