Performance Limits of Fair-Access in Underwater Sensor Networks

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA528024

Entities

People

  • Ding-zhu Du
  • Geoffrey G. Xie
  • John Gibson
  • Miao Peng
  • Yang Xiao

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Command Centers
  • Computer Science
  • Detectors
  • Intervals
  • Mesh Networks
  • Multiple Access
  • Network Topology
  • Networks
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Sensor Networks
  • Time Division Multiple Access
  • Topology
  • Wave Phenomena
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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