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An Implementation of MAC Protocol for Underwater Cellular Networks

Authors:
Junho Cho
Hee-won Kim
Ho-Shin Cho

Keywords: Medium Access Control Protocol, Underwater Networks, Underwater Acoustic Communication

Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a communication system that implements a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for underwater acoustic cellular networks. To evaluate the network’s performance between the underwater base station controller (UBSC) and the underwater base stations (UBS), we implemented a protocol stack on the commercial ARM Linux based hardware platform. We implemented the physical layer interface considering underwater channel characteristics and designed underwater MAC protocol on the data link layer. By testing the implemented system, we can evaluate the network performance and eventually can optimize the protocol performance.

Pages: 64 to 65

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: October 8, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9286

ISBN: 978-1-61208-596-8

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from October 8, 2017 to October 12, 2017