UNDER WATER ACOUSTIC (UW-A) COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE AND THE KEY NOTIONS OF UW-A PROPAGATION

Manujakashi B.C, Shashidhar T.M, Praveen Naik

Abstract: The study of the communication architecture for the underwater is very important due the wide applications based on these sensing devices. The more observed examples of applications are climate change monitoring, study of marine life, pollution control, and military purposes. It is observed the radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic waves [1], Optical electromagnetic waves, underwater Optical communication [2] waves all have been used for the underwater sensor networking. But these have shown with its slight disadvantages for the underwater related works. So this can be overcome by the usage of the acoustic communication as a means of transmission technology for the underwater networked system. It is also observed that the underwater acoustic signals are suffering from the some transmission loss, high propagation delay, limited bandwidth. So to eliminate these observed factors with respect to the underwater sensor networks the communication architecture has been developed to provide the point to point, having low data rate and high bandwidth signal and delay tolerant applications. Therefore this article has been written to give the details of how the communication architecture can be designed and for the underwater network and the key factors which relates to the propagation of underwater acoustic signals.

Keywords: UW-A, Doppler Spread, Attenuation, Variance

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0302004