MAC Protocols Based on Busy Duration for Underwater Acoustic Networks

Yongxin Zhong; Jianguo Huang

ChinaCom2009-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

MAC Protocols Based on Busy Duration for Underwater Acoustic Networks

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    author={Yongxin Zhong and Jianguo Huang},
    title={MAC Protocols Based on Busy Duration for Underwater Acoustic Networks},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-WCN},
    year={2009},
    month={11},
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    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339850}
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Yongxin Zhong
Jianguo Huang
Year: 2009
MAC Protocols Based on Busy Duration for Underwater Acoustic Networks
CHINACOM2009-WCN
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339850

Yongxin Zhong¹^,*, Jianguo Huang¹

1: College of Marine, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 710072, Xi’an, China

*Contact email: yongxin_zhong@126.com

Abstract

Long propagation delay and low bit rate of underwater acoustic networks (UANs) make these systems fundamentally different from the radio networks. Especially, high propagation delay of acoustic waves makes UANs low efficiency and poor performance. In this paper, we investigate how UANs’ throughput may be enhanced via medium access control (MAC) techniques and propose two new MAC protocols called handshaking with busy duration (HDSK-BD) and Aloha with busy duration (Aloha-BD), which takes advantage of long propagation delay in underwater channel by achieving busy durations of other nodes. Simulation tests on OPNET radio modeler show that two schemes proposed have better performance.

Published: 2009-11-20
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339850