Robust TDA-MAC for practical underwater sensor network deployment: Lessons from usmart sea trials

Nils Morozs; Paul D. Mitchell; Yuriy Zakharov; Benjamin Sherlock; Jeffrey A. Neasham; Charalampos C. Tsimenidis; Rahul Mourya; Yvan R. Petillot; Tyler Gibney; Mauro Dragone; Mohammed E. Sayed; Alistair C. McConnell; Simona Aracri; Adam A. Stokes

doi:10.1145/3291940.3291970

Robust TDA-MAC for practical underwater sensor network deployment: Lessons from usmart sea trials

Nils Morozs^*, Paul D. Mitchell, Yuriy Zakharov, Benjamin Sherlock, Jeffrey A. Neasham, Charalampos C. Tsimenidis, Rahul Mourya, Yvan R. Petillot, Tyler Gibney, Mauro Dragone, Mohammed E. Sayed, Alistair C. McConnell, Simona Aracri, Adam A. Stokes

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the results of deploying the first test prototype of the USMART low cost underwater sensor network in sea trials in Fort William, United Kingdom, on 29 June 2018 and 3 July 2018. We demonstrate the first ever hardware implementation of the Transmit Delay Allocation MAC (TDA-MAC) protocol for data gathering in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs). The results show a successful application of TDA-MAC to remote environmental monitoring, integrating a range of sensor nodes developed by the universities of Heriot-Watt, York, Newcastle and Edinburgh. We focus on the practical challenges and their mitigation strategies related to TDA-MAC to increase its robustness in real-world deployments, compared with theoretical and simulation-based studies. The lessons learned from the sea trials reported in this paper prompted several crucial modifications to TDA-MAC which form a solid foundation for further work on the development of TDA-MAC based UASNs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450361934
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3291940.3291970
Publication status	Published - 3 Dec 2018
Event	13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems 2018 - Shenzhen, China Duration: 3 Dec 2018 → 5 Dec 2018

Conference

Conference	13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems 2018
Abbreviated title	WUWNet 2018
Country/Territory	China
City	Shenzhen
Period	3/12/18 → 5/12/18

Keywords

Medium Access Control
Sea Trials
TDA-MAC
Underwater Acoustic Network
Wireless Sensing

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Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Morozs, N., Mitchell, P. D., Zakharov, Y., Sherlock, B., Neasham, J. A., Tsimenidis, C. C., Mourya, R., Petillot, Y. R., Gibney, T., Dragone, M., Sayed, M. E., McConnell, A. C., Aracri, S., & Stokes, A. A. (2018). Robust TDA-MAC for practical underwater sensor network deployment: Lessons from usmart sea trials. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems Article 11 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3291940.3291970

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Morozs, N, Mitchell, PD, Zakharov, Y, Sherlock, B, Neasham, JA, Tsimenidis, CC, Mourya, R, Petillot, YR, Gibney, T, Dragone, M, Sayed, ME, McConnell, AC, Aracri, S & Stokes, AA 2018, Robust TDA-MAC for practical underwater sensor network deployment: Lessons from usmart sea trials. in Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems., 11, Association for Computing Machinery, 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems 2018, Shenzhen, China, 3/12/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3291940.3291970

Robust TDA-MAC for practical underwater sensor network deployment: Lessons from usmart sea trials. / Morozs, Nils; Mitchell, Paul D.; Zakharov, Yuriy et al.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. 11.

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