A survey on energy efficient MAC protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks

  Saranya P.R,  Dr. Binu G.S,  Prof.Vinod G.

Underwater sensor nodes find applications in oceanographic data collection, pollution monitoring, offshore exploration, disaster prevention, assisted navigation and tactical surveillance applications. Moreover, unmanned or autonomous underwater vehicles (UUVs, AUVs), equipped with sensors, will enable the exploration of natural undersea resources and gathering of scientific data in collaborative monitoring missions. Underwater acoustic networking is the enabling technology for these applications. Underwater networks consist of a variable number of sensors and vehicles that are deployed to perform collaborative monitoring tasks over a given area. MAC protocol ensures data reliability in UWSN. The main goal of MAC protocol for underwater sensor network is to solve the data packet collision in terms of energy consumption.

Keywords- Underwater Sensor Networks, Acoustic Underwater Networks

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1602011
Page Number(s) - 71-77
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 2 | April 2016
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Saranya P.R,  Dr. Binu G.S,  Prof.Vinod G.,   "A survey on energy efficient MAC protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 2, pp.71-77, April 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1602011.pdf