An Efficient Multi-link Concurrent Transmission MAC Protocol for Long-Delay Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Yue Wang, Xiaoqin Song, Lei Lei*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) are confronted with great challenges on the design of medium access control (MAC) protocol due to its poor reliability, small channel capacity, and large propagation delay. How to optimize the channel access technology and increase the network throughput has become a research hotspot. Aiming at the star topology consisting of the sink node and its one-hop neighboring nodes, this paper proposes a concurrent transmission MLC-MAC protocol based on CSMA. We introduce BCTS frames to broadcast the sending order scheduled by sink node. We further model and analyze the transmission phase of our protocol, and derive the collision and transmission probability to achieve the saturation network throughput. Simulation results prove that our model is validated and our protocol effectively improves the performance of UASNs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications - 16th International Conference, WASA 2021, Proceedings
EditorsZhe Liu, Fan Wu, Sajal K. Das
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages262-273
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030861360
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2021 - Nanjing, China
Duration: 25 Jun 202127 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12939 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period25/06/2127/06/21

Keywords

  • Concurrent transmission
  • Markov chain
  • Medium access control
  • Underwater acoustic sensor networks

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