Concurrent Transmission Based on Distributed Scheduling for Underwater Acoustic Networks

Sensors

Yan Xiong¹  Jun Zhang²  Hanhua Lai² 

[1] Department of Computer Science, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou 510303, China;School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China;

关键词: underwater acoustic networks;    handshaking;    concurrent transmission;    distributed scheduling;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s19081871

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Handshaking is a common technique used to avoid collisions in terrestrial and underwater content-based networks. However, due to the long propagation delay of the underwater acoustic channel, the conventional handshaking mechanism, which only allows one successful handshake and one pair of nodes to communicate per transmission cycle, becomes less effective in underwater acoustic networks. This paper proposes a new distributed scheduling method for underwater acoustic networks that supports multiple handshakes and concurrent transmissions in one transmission cycle for one-hop clusters. A deterministic scheduling algorithm was developed to optimize the sending sequence and time of the source nodes jointly so that the total data transmission time is shortened while avoiding collisions among multiple concurrent transmissions. The deterministic scheduling algorithm can also reduce the scheduling overhead and enables the synchronization of the data concurrent transmissions in a distributed manner via the standard two-way handshaking. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms several conventional underwater medium access control protocols in normalized throughput, packet delivery rate, average end-to-end delay, and average energy consumption.

【 授权许可】

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