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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

A hierarchical information acquisition system for AUV assisted internet of underwater things

C Qin, J Du, J Wang, Y Ren - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an extension and novel category of the Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet of Underwater
Things (IoUT) attracts growing interest in sensing and exploiting ocean. Underwater Sensor …

Mobile data gathering with hop-constrained clustering in underwater sensor networks

SM Ghoreyshi, A Shahrabi, T Boutaleb… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed growing attention to the mobile data gathering schemes using
autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in underwater sensor networks (UWSNs). In this …

AUV-aided energy-efficient data collection in underwater acoustic sensor networks

X Zhuo, M Liu, Y Wei, G Yu, F Qu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), two critical problems have
been prominent, ie, the energy constraint of underwater devices and large demand for data …

[HTML][HTML] HAS4: A Heuristic Adaptive Sink Sensor Set Selection for Underwater AUV-Aid Data Gathering Algorithm

X Wang, D Wei, X Wei, J Cui, M Pan - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we target solving the data gathering problem in underwater wireless sensor
networks. In many underwater applications, it is not quick to retrieve sensed data, which …

Stochastic optimization-aided energy-efficient information collection in internet of underwater things networks

Z Fang, J Wang, J Du, X Hou, Y Ren… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the face of deeply exploring and exploiting marine resources, the Internet of Underwater
Things (IoUT) networks have drawn great attention considering its widely distributed low …

Data-gathering protocol-based AUV path-planning for long-duration cooperation in underwater acoustic sensor networks

H Nam - IEEE sensors journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have been widely used to
prolong the lifetime of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UWASNs) through cooperative …

Autonomous underwater vehicles support for enhanced performance in the Internet of underwater things

M Al‐Bzoor, E Al‐assem, L Alawneh… - Transactions on …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Internet of underwater things (IoUT) has become a promising and vibrant paradigm
which mainly relies on the underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks (UASN). IoUT was …