Title: Finding a suitable hop-to-hop busty traffic transmission approach for underwater acoustic networks: handshake-based vs. handshake-free MAC protocols

Authors: Dilara Ireen Swarna; Saiful Azad; Al-Sakib Khan Pathan; Arafatur Rahman

Addresses: American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), House Nos. 58/B, Block-B, Rd. No. 21, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh ' Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, 26300 Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia; IBM Center of Excellence, UMP, 26300 Gambang, Kuantan, Malaysia ' Faculty of Computer and Information Systems, Islamic University in Madinah, Madinah al-Munawwarah, 71455, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh ' Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, 26300 Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia; IBM Center of Excellence, UMP, 26300 Gambang, Kuantan, Malaysia

Abstract: Any medium access control (MAC) protocol designed for underwater acoustic networks (UANs) must take some unique characteristics of underwater channels into consideration for apt functioning, such as long propagation delay, high bit-error rate, limited bandwidth and so forth. Already, many MAC protocols are designed for UANs, which have fully or partially taken these characteristics into account and could be classified as handshake-free and handshake-based protocols. In this paper, these two classes are investigated through a comprehensive simulation campaign by employing their prominent representative protocols, namely ALOHA, carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) and multiple access with collision avoidance based adaptive packet train (MACA-APT) protocol. The contribution of this paper lies as follows: (i) unearthing the optimum values of various parameters on which the performance of a protocol relies; (ii) investigating the performance of all three protocols through a realistic channel model simulator by varying a couple of network parameters, and iii) discovering their effectiveness on various applications.

Keywords: UAN; underwater acoustic networks; ALOHA; carrier sense multiple access; CSMA; multiple access with collision avoidance based adaptive packet train; MACA-APT; handshake-based; handshake-free; MAC protocol; medium access control; DEsign; simulate; emulate and realise test-beds; DESERT.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2018.089826

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2018 Vol.27 No.3, pp.222 - 231

Received: 03 Sep 2015
Accepted: 02 Dec 2015
Published online: 13 Feb 2018 *

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