Full-Duplex Directional Collision Avoidance Medium Access Control Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks

LIU Qipei; QIAO Gang; Suleman Mazhar

doi:10.11999/JEIT211426

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LIU Qipei, QIAO Gang, Suleman Mazhar. Full-Duplex Directional Collision Avoidance Medium Access Control Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2023, 45(2): 524-533. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211426

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LIU Qipei, QIAO Gang, Suleman Mazhar. Full-Duplex Directional Collision Avoidance Medium Access Control Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2023, 45(2): 524-533. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211426

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Full-Duplex Directional Collision Avoidance Medium Access Control Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks

doi: 10.11999/JEIT211426

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Acoustic Science and Technology Laboratory, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
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Key Laboratory of Marine Information Acquisition and Security(Harbin Engineering University), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin 150001, China
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College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

Funds: The Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang (LH2021F010)

Received Date: 2021-12-02
Rev Recd Date: 2022-03-25

Available Online: 2022-03-29

Publish Date: 2023-02-10

Abstract

Abstract

A great improvement in Underwater Acoustic Network (UAN) has been witnessed in past few years, but severe challenges still remain, and energy efficiency becomes the primary consideration of UAN. In addition, the reliability and effectiveness of underwater acoustic communication technology are seriously restricted by the large propagation delay of the underwater acoustic channel and the limitation of available bandwidth, and the performance of UAN is limited. Through the ability to focus a beam, the above challenges can be effectively addressed by directional communication technology, resulting in a higher communication range and signal-to-noise ratio than omnidirectional communication, as well as energy consumption efficiency and spatial reuse ratio of the whole network are improved. However, a priori knowledge of the location of the destination node is required and the problem of deafness occurs. Therefore, the Full-Duplex Directional Collision Avoidance (FDDCA) Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is proposed in this paper, with which the problem of deafness is resolved by using two transducers that work in omnidirectional and directional modes, respectively, as well as the exposed terminal problem. Results supporting the conclusions are shown in the simulations, where 90% and 94% energy savings, 140% and 400% throughput improvements are acquired in different network topologies by FDDCA, compared with UnderWater Aloha (UW-Aloha) and Slotted FAMA (S-FAMA) protocol.
- Underwater Acoustic Network(UAN),
- Full-duplex,
- Directional communication,
- Medium Access Control protocol

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