A Cost Effective Block Framing Scheme for Underwater Communication

Sensors

Soo-Young Shin¹ 

[1] The Graduate School of Business IT, Kookmin University, Jeongneung-ro 77, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136-702 Korea; E-Mail

关键词: underwater MAC;    block framing;    ARQ;    BA;    MA;    SMA;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s111211717

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, the Selective Multiple Acknowledgement (SMA) method, based on Multiple Acknowledgement (MA), is proposed to efficiently reduce the amount of data transmission by redesigning the transmission frame structure and taking into consideration underwater transmission characteristics. The method is suited to integrated underwater system models, as the proposed method can handle the same amount of data in a much more compact frame structure without any appreciable loss of reliability. Herein, the performance of the proposed SMA method was analyzed and compared to those of the conventional Automatic Repeat-reQuest (ARQ), Block Acknowledgement (BA), block response, and MA methods. The efficiency of the underwater sensor network, which forms a large cluster and mostly contains uplink data, is expected to be improved by the proposed method.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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