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Many potential applications such as ocean sampling network, environment monitoring, undersea exploration, disaster prevention, assisted navigation, and mine reconnaissance can be provided by deploying the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks. Because of the peculiarities of acoustic communication in underwater, the MAC protocol which play a role of managing and controlling the channels, must overcome the required of energy consumption, propagation delay and time synchronize as well as other factors. In this paper, we summarize and classify some current proposed MAC protocols as well as make a comparison table in order to bring out the current development of a very interesting research area. Beside, we briefly introduce our suggestion of MAC mechanisms for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UWASNs) named Gain-time and Guard-time TDMA mechanism and UWA-NAV mechanism.
This research was supported by the MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication), Korea, under the 2007 ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Assessment).
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Nguyen, H.T., Shin, SY., Park, SH. (2007). State-of-the-Art in MAC Protocols for Underwater Acoustics Sensor Networks. In: Denko, M.K., et al. Emerging Directions in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing. EUC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4809. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77090-9_44
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