Underwater Sensing, Signal Processing and Communications
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2023) | Viewed by 22883
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Interests: optical wireless communication; intelligent reflecting surfaces; unmanned aerial vehicles; NOMA; WPT; IoUT; 5G/6G
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Interests: ad hoc networks; vehicular networks; body area sensor networks; underwater sensor networks; renewable and sustainable energy; energy management; cloud and fog computing; data science; blockchain
Interests: network security; blockchain; big data; AI; data mining
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Interests: IoT; 5G; blockchain; machine learning; UAVs; wireless communication
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Interests: fractal dimension; underwater signal processing; sensor signal processing; denoising; feature extraction; fault diagnosis; image processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The domain of underwater communication and networking is rapidly expanding due to its vital contributions in various commercial and military applications. Among these, a wide range of activities are real-time underwater sensing, oceanographic data collection, pollution monitoring, offshore exploration, ocean mapping, underwater communication, tactical surveillance, subsea search-and-rescue operations, subsea infrastructure inspection and disaster prevention. To support these applications, conventional underwater acoustic communication inherits several drawbacks, including high propagation delay, limited bandwidth and slow propagation. Moreover, it is severely degraded by multipath propagation, Doppler spread and fading. Recently, advanced sensing, signal processing and communication techniques using optical, electromagnetic and acoustic waves have emerged as promising alternatives to tackle these practical challenges. It is also needed to incorporate notable enabling technologies, such as medium access control (MAC) protocol designs, novel transceiver designs with spatial diversity and innovative modulation schemes to estimate the time-varying underwater channel, low-cost testbed deployments, accurate positioning, high data rate communications and great robustness of large-scale underwater networks.
This Special Issue aims to provide a forum to bring together latest the research innovations from both practitioners and leading researchers from diversified interests to unlock the potential and address breakthrough novelties in underwater sensing, signal processing and communications. The key objective is to highlight ongoing research activities, recent breakthroughs, novel applications and major technical uncertainties related to underwater communication and networking. We invite prospective authors to contribute articles of high-quality scientific research based on both theory and experiments. The key focus of this feature topic is to bridge the gap between theory, practice in design and applications for different underwater technologies. Submissions on simulations, real-time sea trials and testbed applications will be strongly considered for this Special Issue. We seek original research articles, surveys and reviews on the potential topics given, but not limited to:
- Underwater wireless communications, including magneto-inductive, radio frequency (RF), optical and acoustic waves;
- Underwater-communication-based channel modeling and signal processing techniques;
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms for adaptive underwater communications;
- Multiple-access techniques, such as non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA);
- Next-generation underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs);
- Underwater Internet of Things (IoUT);
- Underwater sensing, monitoring, tracking, navigation, surveillance, positioning and localization;
- Underwater remote sensing technology;
- Underwater network and cross-layer protocols;
- Underwater communications for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).
Dr. Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan
Prof. Dr. Nadeem Javaid
Dr. Chien-Ming Chen
Dr. Muhammad Asghar Khan
Dr. Yuxing Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UWSN
- IoUT
- communication
- sensing
- localization
- channel modeling
- signal processing
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