Underwater Sensor Networking : Research Challenges and Potential Applications

This report summarizes our research directions in underwater sensor networks. We highlight potential applications to off-shore oilfields for seismic monitoring, equipment monitoring, and underwater robotics. We identify research directions in short-range acoustic communications, MAC, time synchronization, and localization protocols for highlatency acoustic networks, long-duration network sleeping, and application-level data scheduling.

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