Robust TDA-MAC for Practical Underwater Sensor Network Deployment: Lessons from USMART Sea Trials

Nils  Morozs; Paul D.  Mitchell; Yuriy  Zakharov; Rahul  Mourya; Yvan R.  Petillot; Tyler  Gibney; Mauro  Dragone; Benjamin  Sherlock; Jeffrey A.  Neasham; Charalampos C.  Tsimenidis; Mohammed Mohammed; Alistair Mcconnell; Simona Aracri; Adam Stokes

doi:10.1145/3291940.3291970

Robust TDA-MAC for Practical Underwater Sensor Network Deployment: Lessons from USMART Sea Trials

Nils Morozs, Paul D. Mitchell, Yuriy Zakharov, Rahul Mourya, Yvan R. Petillot, Tyler Gibney, Mauro Dragone, Benjamin Sherlock, Jeffrey A. Neasham, Charalampos C. Tsimenidis, Mohammed Mohammed, Alistair Mcconnell, Simona Aracri, Adam Stokes

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the results of deploying the first test prototype of the USMART low cost underwater sensor network in
sea trials in Fort William, United Kingdom, on 29 June 2018 and 3
July 2018. We demonstrate the first ever hardware implementation
of the Transmit Delay Allocation MAC (TDA-MAC) protocol for
data gathering in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs).
The results show a successful application of TDA-MAC to remote
environmental monitoring, integrating a range of sensor nodes
developed by the universities of Heriot-Watt, York, Newcastle and
Edinburgh. We focus on the practical challenges and their mitigation strategies related to TDA-MAC to increase its robustness in
real-world deployments, compared with theoretical and simulationbased studies. The lessons learned from the sea trials reported in
this paper prompted several crucial modifications to TDA-MAC
which form a solid foundation for further work on the development
of TDA-MAC based UASNs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WUWNet’18
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3291940.3291970
Publication status	Published - 3 Dec 2018
Event	The 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems - Shenzhen, China Duration: 3 Dec 2018 → 5 Dec 2018 https://wuwnet.acm.org/2018/

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Conference	The 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems
Abbreviated title	WUWNet'18
Country/Territory	China
City	Shenzhen
Period	3/12/18 → 5/12/18
Internet address	https://wuwnet.acm.org/2018/

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Morozs, N., Mitchell, P. D., Zakharov, Y., Mourya, R., Petillot, Y. R., Gibney, T., Dragone, M., Sherlock, B., Neasham, J. A., Tsimenidis, C. C., Mohammed, M., Mcconnell, A., Aracri, S., & Stokes, A. (2018). Robust TDA-MAC for Practical Underwater Sensor Network Deployment: Lessons from USMART Sea Trials. In WUWNet’18: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3291940.3291970

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Robust TDA-MAC for Practical Underwater Sensor Network Deployment: Lessons from USMART Sea Trials. / Morozs, Nils ; Mitchell, Paul D. ; Zakharov, Yuriy et al.
WUWNet’18: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018.

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