Effects of Various Factors on Performance of MAC Protocols for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract Research on underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is an emerging area. This domain offers challenges and opportunities dynamically. Acoustic communication is one of the most mature technologies in this domain. Existing medium access control (MAC) protocol for terrestrial WSNs are not sufficient to solve the issues in UWSNs due to their limitations. Therefore, to design a new MAC protocols for UWSNs, it is required to study the factors which can affect the performance of MAC protocols in underwater environment. In this paper, we highlight the factors which cause degradation of performance for MAC protocol in terms of energy efficiency. In addition, this paper also focuses on simulation-based experimental results to compare the performance of MAC protocols under data rate factor.

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