Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) play a significant role in ocean exploration and
monitoring by gathering information and routing it to the ground stations. Therefore, the …

Driven by the huge demand to explore oceans, underwater wireless communications have
been rapidly developed in the past few decades. Due to the complex physical characteristics …

This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current research on
underwater wireless sensor networks, focusing on the lower layers of the communication …

In this paper we discuss issues related to the design of underwater acoustic network
protocols which are tailored around, and leverage on, the differences between underwater …

Abstract Recently, Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) has witnessed
significant attention from both academia and industries in research and development, due to …

This article proposes a novel deep-reinforcement learning-based medium access control
(DL-MAC) protocol for underwater acoustic networks (UANs) where one agent node …

Recently, underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have attracted much research
attention to support various applications for pollution monitoring, tsunami warnings, offshore …

Internet-of-Underwater-Things (IoUT) systems comprising tens or hundreds of underwater
acoustic communication nodes will become feasible in the near future. The development of …

This literature study presents an overview of underwater acoustic networking. It provides a
background and describes the state of the art of all networking facets that are relevant for …

Abstract Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have distinctive characteristics
due to the use of acoustic signals as its physical medium for communications, including high …