This paper examines the main approaches and challenges in the design and
implementation of underwater wireless sensor networks. We summarize key applications …

The past 30 years have seen a growing interest in underwater acoustic communications
because of its applications in marine research, oceanography, marine commercial …

Underwater wireless communications can be carried out through acoustic, radio frequency
(RF), and optical waves. Compared to its bandwidth limited acoustic and RF counterparts …

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have been showed as a promising
technology to monitor and explore the oceans in lieu of traditional undersea wireline …

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are finding different applications for
offshore exploration and ocean monitoring. In most of these applications, the network …

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have become more and more important in
ocean exploration applications, such as ocean monitoring, pollution detection, ocean …

Underwater wireless communications can enable many scientific, environmental,
commercial, safety, and military applications. Wireless signal transmission is also crucial to …

Underwater mobile sensor networks have recently been proposed as a way to explore and
observe the ocean, providing 4D (space and time) monitoring of underwater environments …

The objective of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive account of recent advances in
underwater acoustic communications and networking. To do so, it briefly describes the …

A Sensor Equipped Aquatic (SEA) swarm is a sensor cloud that drifts with water currents and
enables 4-D (space and time) monitoring of local underwater events such as contaminants …