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Sensors 2011, 11, 11343-11356; doi:10.3390/s111211343 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A Hierarchical Communication Architecture for Oceanic Surveillance Applications Elsa Macias 1,*, Alvaro Suarez 1, Francesco Chiti 2, Andrea Sacco 2 and Romano Fantacci 2 1 Grupo de Arquitectura y Concurrencia (GAC), Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Spain; E-Mail: asuarez@dit.ulpgc.es (A.S.) 2 Dipartimento Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, University of Florence, Florence 50139, Italy; E-Mails: francesco.chiti@unifi.it (F.C.); andrea.sacco85@ (A.S.); romano.fantacci@unifi.it (R.F.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: emacias@dit.ulpgc.es. Received: 18 October 2011; in revised form: 18 November 2011 / Accepted: 27 November 2011 / Published: 30 November 2011 Abstract: The interest in monitoring applications using underwater sensor networks has been growing in recent years. The severe communication restrictions imposed by underwater channels make that efficient monitoring be a challenging task. Though a lot of research has been conducted on underwater sensor networks, there are only few concrete applications to a real-world case study. In this work, hence, we propose a general three tier architecture leveraging low cost wireless technologies for acoustic communications between underwater sensors and