A systematic review on energy efficiency in the internet of underwater things (IoUT): Recent approaches and research gaps

ES Ali, RA Saeed, IK Eltahir, OO Khalifa - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the advancement of wireless communications, Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a
promising technology in today's digital world. For the enhancement of underwater …

Environment-aware AUV trajectory design and resource management for multi-tier underwater computing

X Hou, J Wang, T Bai, Y Deng, Y Ren… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of underwater things (IoUT) is envisioned to be an essential part of maritime
activities. Given the IoUT devices' wide-area distribution and constrained transmit power …

Data harvesting in uncharted waters: Interactive learning empowered path planning for USV-assisted maritime data collection under fully unknown environments

L Zhao, Y Bai - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Unleashing the potential of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) for Underwater Internet-of-
Things (UIoT) brings forth a vigorous new frontier, unlocking the innovative insights and …

Task scheduling for distributed auv network target hunting and searching: An energy-efficient aoi-aware dmappo approach

Z Wang, J Du, C Jiang, Z Xia, Y Ren… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we aim to design a task scheduling scheme for the underwater multiobjective
task of target hunting and environmental search. A distributed autonomous underwater …

AUV-aided data importance based scheme for protecting location privacy in smart ocean

G Han, Y Chen, H Wang, Y He… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data collection in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) and the exposure of node
location information pose a threat to the security of the entire network. Therefore, the main …

Underwater Searching and Multi-Round Data Collection via AUV Swarms: An Energy-Efficient AoI-Aware MAPPO Approach

B Jiang, J Du, C Jiang, Z Han… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) play a crucial role in data collection for underwater
acoustic sensor networks (UWASNs). The limited capacity of individual AUV and the need …

A general motion control framework for an autonomous underwater vehicle through deep reinforcement learning and disturbance observers

J Xu, F Huang, D Wu, Y Cui, Z Yan, T Chen - Journal of the Franklin …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the application of deep reinforcement learning (RL) in the motion
control for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), and proposes a novel general motion …

The unified task assignment for underwater data collection with multi-AUV system: A reinforced self-organizing mapping approach

S Han, T Zhang, X Li, J Yu, T Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article deals with the task assignment problem for multiple autonomous underwater
vehicles to efficiently collect underwater data from sensors. We formulate a unified …

A secure transmission scheme with energy-efficient cooperative jamming for underwater acoustic sensor networks

Y Su, L Li, R Fan, Y Liu, Z Jin - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) face many security threats since they are
deployed in open or even hostile environments. How to ensure the confidentiality of data …

AUV-Aided Optical—Acoustic Hybrid Data Collection Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

F Bu, H Luo, S Ma, X Li, R Ruby, G Han - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)-assisted mobile data collection in underwater
wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) has received significant attention because of their …