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Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: Şüheda Acar

The document discusses underwater wireless sensor networks. It notes that while the Earth is mostly covered in water, the oceans remain largely unexplored due to challenges. Underwater sensor networks could enable applications like seismic monitoring, but face difficulties with high propagation delays, signal attenuation in water, and node failures from fouling and corrosion. Possible solutions discussed include low-power acoustic communication, localization algorithms, and application-level data scheduling to optimize the limited bandwidth available underwater.

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Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: Şüheda Acar

The document discusses underwater wireless sensor networks. It notes that while the Earth is mostly covered in water, the oceans remain largely unexplored due to challenges. Underwater sensor networks could enable applications like seismic monitoring, but face difficulties with high propagation delays, signal attenuation in water, and node failures from fouling and corrosion. Possible solutions discussed include low-power acoustic communication, localization algorithms, and application-level data scheduling to optimize the limited bandwidth available underwater.

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UNDERWATER

WIRELESS
SENSOR
NETWORKS
ŞÜHEDA ACAR
WHY UNDERWATER?
 The Earth is a water planet
About 2/3 of the Earth covered by oceans
Largerly unexplored, huge amount resources.

 Many potential applications


 Seismic imaging
 Undersea exploration
 Disaster prevention
 Mine reconnaissance
 Assisted navigation
 Distributed tactical surveillance
 Ocean sampling networks
UNDERWATER SENSOR
NETWORKS
-
CHALLENGES-
 High propagation delay
 Radio waves are extremely strongly attenuated in salt
water
 The channel is severely impaired (multipath and
fading)
 Energy conservation is different
 Underwater sensors are prone to failures because of
fouling and corrosion
SYSTEM
ARCHITECTURE
POSSIBLE RISKS IN A
UNDERWATER
HARSH ENVIRONMENT

 Fishing trawlers
 Underwater life
 Failure of waterproofing
APPLICATIONS

Seismic Monitoring:
A promising application for underwater sensor networks is seismic
monitoring for oil extraction from underwater
fields.
 Cost is very high
 Seismic survey can only be carried out rarely.
USING A SENSOR NETWORK RAISES
A
NUMBER OF RESEARCH
CHALLENGES:

 Extraction of data, reliably


 Localization, where each node to determines its location when it is
deployed or should it move
 Distributed clock synchronization clocks for accurate data reporting
 Energy management approaches to extend sensor network lifetime for
a multiyear deployment
SOLUTION
S

 Low-power Acoustic Communication:

Undersea seismic monitoring of oil fields is an “all or nothing”


appl
ication.
How to efficiently re-configure the network after a long sleep
period?
Low power listening with flooding.
SOLUTION
S
 Localization:

Localization algorithms are based on the signal strength or the time-


of-
arrival (TOA).
TOA-based algorithms estimate distances between nodes
by measuring the propagation time of a signal.
SOLUTION
S
 Application-Level Data Scheduling:
Acoustic networks have very limited communications bandwidth.
How to coordinate node’s transmissions in an energy-efficient way
that
can best utilize the channel?

 acoustic radio at 20kb/s


 raw transfer time for one
node is 16 minutes
REFERENCE
S

 Y. Li, W. Ye, J. Wills, A. Syed and J. Heidemann. Research Challenges and


Applications for Underwater Sensor Networking
 E. M. Sozer, M. Stojanovic, and J. G. Proakis. Underwater acoustic
networks. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Jan. 2000.
THANKS

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