Configurations Effects over Swarm Underwater Acoustic Network Performance

An underwater swarm network for monitoring and exploration applications is proposed. Specifically, the behavior for different application scenarios with the corresponding performance analysis is presented. The design of an underwater swarm is discussed considering that the main requirement is maintaining the nodes power consumption as low as possible, without any increase of latency in the network. Results show that both average power and latency can be preserved by considering a reasonable number of hops needed to forward information from source to destination. It is verified that the results are influenced by the nodes motion related to the swarm configuration. This study aims to provide some guidelines to develop an autonomous underwater vehicles swarm for underwater applications.

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