SBMAC Smart Blocking MAC Mechanism for Variable UW-ASN (Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network) Environment 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2010, 10, 501-525; doi:10.3390/s100100501 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article SBMAC: Smart Blocking MAC Mechanism for Variable UW-ASN (Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network) Environment Soo-Young Shin, Jung-Il Namgung and Soo-Hyun Park * The Graduate School of Business IT, Kookmin University, 861-1 Jeongneung-Dong Sungbuk-Gu, Seoul 136-702, Korea; E-Mails: sy-shin@kookmin.ac.kr (S.-Y.S.); greenji@ (J.-I.N.G.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: shpark21@kookmin.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-2-910-4559; Fax: +82-2-910-4519. Received: 10 November 2009; in revised form: 14 December 2009 / Accepted: 1 January 2010 / Published: 12 January 2010 Abstract: In this paper, several MAC scheduling methods applicable to an underwater environment are proposed. Besides, a new marine communication system model was proposed to improve the reliability of the proposed SBMAC method. The scheme minimizes transmission of control frames except for data transmission and various transmission methods and ACK methods can be used together. Simulation models are set indices and analysis of the underwater environment is established to conduct reliable simulations. Consequently, the performance improvement of the proposed method is verified with respect to delay time, data transmission rate, memory utilization, energy efficiency, etc. Keywords: Underwater-Acoustic Sensor Network (UW-ASN); Medium Access Control (MAC); Smart Blocking MAC (SBMAC) 1. Introduction Unlike terrestrial wireless sensor networks that mainly rely on radio waves for communication, underwater sensor networks utilize acoustic waves, which present a much harsher environment for both the physical and the data-link layers. Acoustic waves appear to be a good choice for underwater communications because of their low loss when compared to radio waves. However, one