A Flexible Simulation Platform for Multimodal Underwater Wireless Communications using ns-3

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2022

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Loureiro, JP (Author) Other; Teixeira, FB (Author) Other; Campos, R (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2022 OCEANS HAMPTON ROADS

OCEANS Hampton Roads Conference

ELECTR NETWORK, OCT 17-20, 2022

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Authenticus ID: P-00X-PBE

DOI: 10.1109/oceans47191.2022.9976963

Abstract (EN): In the last few decades, there has been a growing interest in exploring the sea. The activities of the so-called blue economy can go from applications such as offshore maritime wind farms to ocean environment monitoring, which are supported by sensed platforms such Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) that require the use of reliable underwater communications. Currently, there is no suitable solution that is able to combine long-range and broadband underwater communications. The integration of different technologies, namely acoustics, RF, and optical on a multimodal approach, has been considered a suitable solution to overcome the limitations caused by the water propagation medium. Since missions at the ocean are usually expensive and demand large human and technological resources, it is important to have accurate simulation platforms for these multimodal underwater wireless networks. This paper presents the first version of a novel simulation framework - MultiUWSim (Beta) -, built upon ns-3, which integrates multiple communications technologies (RF, acoustics and optical). The current version of the simulation platform offers the possibility of simulating acoustic-based and radio-based physical wireless interfaces in a single node in a ns-3 simulation environment, enabling fully-customizable underwater network simulations.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6