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Comparative Analysis of MAC Protocols and Strategies for Underwater Applications

Authors: Seema Ansari, Javier Poncela, Pablo Otero, Adeel Ansari

Published in: Wireless Personal Communications | Issue 2/2017

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This research focuses on the comparison of the throughput performance of MAC protocols designed for underwater acoustic networks. Our emphasis was to study the key features of the existing MAC protocols for underwater acoustic communications and provide analytical analysis where feasible. We compared some selected underwater MAC protocols like UAN-ALOHA, CSMA, MACA, MACA-EA and S-FAMA and analyzed their throughputs. We chose to evaluate possible improvements in the throughput of S-FAMA by using the retry mechanism. We found the retry mechanism only showed marginal improvement in the throughput. The proposed mechanisms may not have practical efficacy, however, this mechanism may be helpful in saving energy of the sensor nodes by preventing the repetition of the entire transmission cycle.

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Title: Comparative Analysis of MAC Protocols and Strategies for Underwater Applications
Authors: Seema Ansari
Javier Poncela
Pablo Otero
Adeel Ansari
Publication date: 22-11-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Wireless Personal Communications / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0929-6212
Electronic ISSN: 1572-834X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3899-z

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