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Underwater wireless sensor networks are significantly different from terrestrial wireless sensor networks in that sound is mainly used as the communication medium. The limited bandwidth, long propagation delay and high bit error rate pose great challenges in Media Access Control (MAC) protocol design for underwater wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a Slotted-FAMA based MAC protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks with data train, called SFAMA-DT. It improves the channel utilization by forming a train of data packets of multiple transmission pairs during each round of simultaneously handshakes, which overcomes the multiple RTS attempts problem of Slotted-FAMA in high traffic environments and greatly reduces the relative proportion of time wasted due to the propagation delays of control packets. Our simulations show that the SFAMA-DT is able to achieve much higher throughput than the Slotted-FAMA protocol.
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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61374021 and 61531015, the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants LZ14F030003 and LY15F030007, the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (SRFDP) under Grants 20130101110109 and 20120101110115, the ASFC under Grant 2015ZC76006, and the special electronic fund TD-LTE of national ministry of industry and information in 2014.
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Zhang, S., Qian, L., Liu, M. et al. A Slotted-FAMA based MAC Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks with Data Train. J Sign Process Syst 89, 3–12 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-016-1138-1
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