Abstract Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are garnering significant interest
for their broad potential in critical applications, including environmental monitoring, resource …

The term “Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT)” refers to a network of intelligent
interconnected underwater devices designed to monitor various underwater activities. The …

Advances in the development of underwater full duplex sensors have meant they can now
provide solutions to underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASN) that suffer from narrow …

Medium access control (MAC) is one of the key requirements in underwater acoustic sensor
networks (UASNs). For a MAC protocol to provide its basic function of efficient sharing of …

To design a reliable and energy efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol for
underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is an active research area due to its variety …

With the huge developments of underwater communication technologies, the UWSNs have
played a significant role to realise profitable sea and water resource discovery/management …

Abstract Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASN) have to cope with high and variable
delays, disruptions and disconnections between nodes, because underwater acoustic …

The long propagation delay in underwater acoustic channels has attracted tremendous
attentions in designing Medium Access Control (MAC). The low acoustic propagation speed …

Acoustic propagation through water suffers from attenuation that increases with both signal
frequency and transmission range, with time-varying long propagation delays. The power …

This work is concerned with the design, analysis and development of effective Medium
Access Control (MAC) protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs). The …