Research Article
A MAC protocol design for optical-acoustic hybrid underwater wireless sensor network
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.21-6-2018.2276617, author={Zhe Chen and Jingjing wang and Xinjie wang and Lingwei Xu}, title={A MAC protocol design for optical-acoustic hybrid underwater wireless sensor network}, proceedings={International Workshop on Millimeter-wave Radar Technology and Application}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={IWMRTA}, year={2018}, month={9}, keywords={uwsn mac protocol optical-acoustic hybrid}, doi={10.4108/eai.21-6-2018.2276617} }- Zhe Chen
Jingjing wang
Xinjie wang
Lingwei Xu
Year: 2018
A MAC protocol design for optical-acoustic hybrid underwater wireless sensor network
IWMRTA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.21-6-2018.2276617
Abstract
To achieve fast and reliable transmission of underwater data, a new type of optical-acoustic hybrid underwater wireless sensor network (OA-UWSN) is proposed in this paper, and a new media access control (MAC) protocol with optical-acoustic (O-A) handshake is designed for the proposed network, in which the optical-acoustic request to send (RTS)/clear to send (CTS) message handshake is used to ensure the reliability of communication. The new protocol also adopts a time-slot reservation and back-off mechanism based on the optical-acoustic handshake. OMNET++ simulation software is used to simulate OA-UWSN and MAC protocols. The results show that the channel utilization of the proposed protocol in OA-UWSN is enhanced 24% more than T-Lohi protocol, and the OA-UWSN energy consumption of the proposed protocol is far lower than acoustic communication network.