Recent Trends and Advances in Underwater Sensor Networks
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 1955
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Interests: network protocols; wireless; mobile and sensor networks; performance modelling and evaluation of parallel and distributed systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Nearly 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, mainly oceans (above 95 percent). However, the vast majority of this area is still unexplored. Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) have recently attracted attention for the support of aquatic applications such as exploration for ocean resources, navigation surveillance, pollution monitoring, disaster prevention, intrusion detection, and military applications. UWSNs have rapidly grown over the last decade and are forecasted for even further growth over the coming years as there still exist many issues that are yet to be addressed.
In this Special Issue, we aim at dealing with all aspects of UWSNs at various layers, including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Underwater acoustic communications;
- Underwater applications and experiments;
- New protocols and architectures;
- Topology control and routing;
- MAC protocols;
- Autonomous underwater vehicles for mobile networks;
- Data gathering using AUVs;
- Node deployment algorithms;
- Localization and tracking;
- Aquatic networked mobile systems;
- Performance modelling and analysis;
- Hardware for aquatic sensors and systems.
Dr. Alireza Shahrabi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- underwater sensor networks
- routing protocols for UWSNs
- underwater deployment
- underwater communications
- acoustic communications
- MAC protocols for UWSNs
- autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)
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