Underwater wireless communication (UWC) networks have attracted substantial attention in
recent years. UWC can facilitate critical emerging services including communications for …

As a significant component of ocean exploration, underwater localization has attracted
extensive attention in both military and civil fields. Due to its low cost and convenience …

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

Recently, there has been increasing interest in the field of underwater wireless sensor
networks (UWSNs), which is a basic source for the exploration of the ocean environment. A …

Underwater localization is used as a key element in most applications of underwater
communications. Despite the global positioning system (GPS) receivers are usually …

Oceanographic data collection, disaster prevention, aided navigation, critical observation
sub-missions, contaminant screening, and seaward scanning are just a few of the …

Feature-based similarity searching is emerging as an important search paradigm in
database systems. The technique used is to map the data items as points into a high …

Localization is the basic feature of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and estimating the time
difference of arrival (TDoA), and angle of arrival (AoA) is the most used schemes for …

Underwater acoustic localization (UWAL) is a useful technique, and is applied in finding the
acoustical sources, such as the black box. The existing UWAL methods are mainly based on …

In an underwater environment, it is necessary but tough to track the location of deployed
sensor nodes because of node's mobility, nonavailability of GPS, node software or hardware …