title: Time-Efficient High-Rate Data Flooding in One-Dimensional Acoustic Underwater Sensor Networks.
abstract: Because underwater communication environments have poor characteristics, such as severe attenuation, large propagation delays and narrow bandwidths, data is normally transmitted at low rates through acoustic waves. On the other hand, as high traffic has recently been required in diverse areas, high rate transmission has become necessary. In this paper, transmission/reception timing schemes that maximize the time axis use efficiency to improve the resource efficiency for high rate transmission are proposed. The excellence of the proposed scheme is identified by examining the power distributions by node, rate bounds, power levels depending on the rates and number of nodes, and network split gains through mathematical analysis and numerical results. In addition, the simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing packet train method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 712-749, Korea. jack@yumail.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Jae Kyun
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.affiliation: School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea. bmseo@ee.knu.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Bo-Min
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.affiliation: Institute of Industrial Technology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 712-749, Korea. kadbonow@ynu.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Kyungsu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yun
authors.affiliation: College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea. hscho@ee.knu.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Ho-Shin
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Cho
keywords: one-dimensional deployment; power consumption; time efficiency; underwater sensor network