Performance Limits of Fair-Access in Underwater Sensor Networks

Author

Xiao, Yang ; Peng, Miao ; Gibson, John ; Xie, Geoffrey G. ; Du, Ding-Zhu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

22-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

285

Lastpage

292

Abstract

This paper investigates fundamental performance limits of medium access control (MAC) protocols for particular underwater multi-hop sensor networks under a fair-access criterion requiring that sensors have an equal rate of underwater frame delivery to a base station. Tight upper bounds on network utilization and tight lower bounds on minimum time between samples are derived for fixed linear topology. The paper also examines the implication of the end-to-end performance bounds regarding the traffic rate and sensing time interval of individual sensors.

Keywords

access protocols; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; fair-access criterion; fixed linear topology; medium access control protocols; network utilization; traffic rate; underwater multihop sensor networks; underwater sensor networks; Access protocols; Acoustic sensors; Base stations; Computer science; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Relays; Sensor arrays; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication traffic; Underwater; limits; sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing, 2009. ICPP '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

ISSN

0190-3918

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4961-3

Electronic_ISBN

0190-3918

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPP.2009.32

Filename

5362360