A propagation-delay-tolerant MAC protocol with adaptive reservation for long propagation delay networks

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Furong Xu ◽  
Kai Liu ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Dongdong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Propagation Delay ◽  
Delay Tolerant

scholarly journals Investigating Master–Slave Architecture for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 3000
Author(s):  
Sadeeq Jan ◽  
Eiad Yafi ◽  
Abdul Hafeez ◽  
Hamza Waheed Khatana ◽  
Sajid Hussain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Propagation Delay ◽  
Data Packet ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Limited Bandwidth ◽  
Delay Tolerant

A significant increase has been observed in the use of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) over the last few decades. However, there exist several associated challenges with UWSNs, mainly due to the nodes’ mobility, increased propagation delay, limited bandwidth, packet duplication, void holes, and Doppler/multi-path effects. To address these challenges, we propose a protocol named “An Efficient Routing Protocol based on Master–Slave Architecture for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (ERPMSA-UWSN)” that significantly contributes to optimizing energy consumption and data packet’s long-term survival. We adopt an innovative approach based on the master–slave architecture, which results in limiting the forwarders of the data packet by restricting the transmission through master nodes only. In this protocol, we suppress nodes from data packet reception except the master nodes. We perform extensive simulation and demonstrate that our proposed protocol is delay-tolerant and energy-efficient. We achieve an improvement of 13% on energy tax and 4.8% on Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), over the state-of-the-art protocol.

scholarly journals Packet Flow Based Reinforcement Learning MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 2284
Author(s):  
Ibrahim B. Alhassan ◽  
Paul D. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Propagation Delay ◽  
Basic Function ◽  
Acoustic Sensor ◽  
Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Underwater Acoustic ◽  
Q Learning ◽  
Acoustic Sensor Networks

Medium access control (MAC) is one of the key requirements in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs). For a MAC protocol to provide its basic function of efficient sharing of channel access, the highly dynamic underwater environment demands MAC protocols to be adaptive as well. Q-learning is one of the promising techniques employed in intelligent MAC protocol solutions, however, due to the long propagation delay, the performance of this approach is severely limited by reliance on an explicit reward signal to function. In this paper, we propose a restructured and a modified two stage Q-learning process to extract an implicit reward signal for a novel MAC protocol: Packet flow ALOHA with Q-learning (ALOHA-QUPAF). Based on a simulated pipeline monitoring chain network, results show that the protocol outperforms both ALOHA-Q and framed ALOHA by at least 13% and 148% in all simulated scenarios, respectively.

scholarly journals Receiver-Initiated Handshaking MAC Based on Traffic Estimation for Underwater Sensor Networks ‡

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 3895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Dong ◽  
Lina Pu ◽  
Yu Luo ◽  
Zheng Peng ◽  
Haining Mo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Propagation Delay ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Underwater Sensor Networks ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
The Status ◽  
Efficient Data ◽  
Traffic Estimation ◽  
Delay Tolerant

In underwater sensor networks (UWSNs), the unique characteristics of acoustic channels have posed great challenges for the design of medium access control (MAC) protocols. The long propagation delay problem has been widely explored in recent literature. However, the long preamble problem with acoustic modems revealed in real experiments brings new challenges to underwater MAC design. The overhead of control messages in handshaking-based protocols becomes significant due to the long preamble in underwater acoustic modems. To address this problem, we advocate the receiver-initiated handshaking method with parallel reservation to improve the handshaking efficiency. Despite some existing works along this direction, the data polling problem is still an open issue. Without knowing the status of senders, the receiver faces two challenges for efficient data polling: when to poll data from the sender and how much data to request. In this paper, we propose a traffic estimation-based receiver-initiated MAC (TERI-MAC) to solve this problem with an adaptive approach. Data polling in TERI-MAC depends on an online approximation of traffic distribution. It estimates the energy efficiency and network latency and starts the data request only when the preferred performance can be achieved. TERI-MAC can achieve a stable energy efficiency with arbitrary network traffic patterns. For traffic estimation, we employ a resampling technique to keep a small computation and memory overhead. The performance of TERI-MAC in terms of energy efficiency, channel utilization, and communication latency is verified in simulations. Our results show that, compared with existing receiver-initiated-based underwater MAC protocols, TERI-MAC can achieve higher energy efficiency at the price of a delay penalty. This confirms the strength of TERI-MAC for delay-tolerant applications.

DOTS: A Propagation Delay-Aware Opportunistic MAC Protocol for Mobile Underwater Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngtae Noh ◽  
Uichin Lee ◽  
Seongwon Han ◽  
Paul Wang ◽  
Dustin Torres ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Propagation Delay ◽  
Underwater Networks

Research on MAC Protocol for UWA Sensor Network

2013 ◽  
Vol 303-306 ◽  
pp. 236-241
Author(s):  
Wen Zhong Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Time Delay ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Propagation Delay ◽  
Spatial Multiplexing ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
The Other ◽  
Throughput Performance ◽  
Underwater Acoustic ◽  
Agent Protocol

The characteristics and environment of the underwater acoustic (UWA) sensor network require a MAC protocol to be suitable for the long propagation delay. So we put forward a suitable MAC protocol, referring to the AGENT protocol in this paper. We call this protocol C-AGENT-LPD, which means C-AGENT with Long Propagation Delay. And it makes full use of the spatial multiplexing of the UWA channel. Through the simulations, we can see that the protocol has better time delay and throughput performance than the other two MAC protocols.

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