TY - GEN
T1 - Stochastic scheduling for underwater sensor networks
AU - Marinakis, Dimitri
AU - Wu, Kui
AU - Whitesides, Sue
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The context of underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) presents special challenges for data transmission. For that context, we examine the merit of using a simple, stochastic transmission strategy based on the ALOHA protocol. The strategy uses a stochastic scheduling approach in which time is slotted, and each network node broadcasts according to some probability during each time slot. We present a closed-form solution to an objective function that guides the assignment of the broadcast probabilities with respect to overall network reliability. We propose an easily distributed heuristic based on local network density and evaluate our approach using numerical simulations. The evaluation results show that even without using explicit control signalling, our simple stochastic scheduling method performs well for data transmission in UWSNs. © 2011 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
AB - The context of underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) presents special challenges for data transmission. For that context, we examine the merit of using a simple, stochastic transmission strategy based on the ALOHA protocol. The strategy uses a stochastic scheduling approach in which time is slotted, and each network node broadcasts according to some probability during each time slot. We present a closed-form solution to an objective function that guides the assignment of the broadcast probabilities with respect to overall network reliability. We propose an easily distributed heuristic based on local network density and evaluate our approach using numerical simulations. The evaluation results show that even without using explicit control signalling, our simple stochastic scheduling method performs well for data transmission in UWSNs. © 2011 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
KW - MAC protocols
KW - network reliability
KW - slotted ALOHA
KW - underwater senor networks
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79956043335
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79956043335#tab=impact
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-20757-0_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-20757-0_11
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9783642207563
VL - 6640 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 134
EP - 146
BT - NETWORKING 2011 - 10th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 10th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2011
Y2 - 9 May 2011 through 13 May 2011
ER -