This document discusses optimal node placement in underwater wireless sensor networks. It aims to find the placement that maximizes coverage and connectivity while minimizing transmission losses. The network model divides the ocean into regions based on depth and models node communication ranges as truncated octahedrons. Simulation results show the optimal transmission range depends on frequency, depth, power level, and modulation scheme used. Placement strategies that consider these channel factors can support autonomous underwater vehicle monitoring tasks with minimum network nodes.
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1. Optimal Node Placement in Underwater
Wireless Network
Muhamad
Felemban, BasemShihada, and
KamranJamshaid
Department of Computer Science, CEMSE Division,
KAUST, Saudi Arabia
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2. Presentation Outline
Introduction and Motivation
Objective
Network Model
Underwater Communication
Problem Formulation
Results
Simulation Setup and Results
Conclusion
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3. Introduction
Most of the Earth is covered by water
Underwater operations are difficult
Monitoring tasks:
Habitat monitoring
Data sampling
Critical tasks:
Oil spill, Mexico Gulf 2010
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4. Motivation
AUV Limitations:
Off-line configuration
Non real-time monitoring
Limited Bandwidth and high propagation delays
Use Underwater Wireless Sensor Network UWSN to
over come theses limitations
But
High cost deployment
Large power consumption
Limited hardware
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5. Papers Objective
Find the optimal distance between two nodes such
that
Attains maximum coverage and connectivity
Minimizes transmission loss between nodes
Find an optimal node placement strategy to support
AUVs operations such that
Minimum number of nodes is used for a given volume
Maximum coverage volume for certain number of nodes
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6. Network Model
Surface Gateways (SG): EM and acoustic transceivers
Relay Nodes (RN): homogenous transceivers
Uniform transmission power
Each node forms a communication sphere of
radius r
Two nodes are connected if inter-distance is
less than or equal r
Nodes are statically placed and maintain
their positions r SG
Ocean is divided horizontally into regions RN
based on the depth
Propagation characteristic is different
in each region
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7. Network Model
Find a space-filling polyhedron that approximates the
communication sphere
The best polyhedron to approximate a sphere has a
large volumetric quotient
Truncated Octahedron (TO) has
volumetric quotient of 0.68
Node placement strategy is to
tessellate TOs of radius R using
where
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8. Underwater Communication
SNR is computed using the passive sonar equation
[Urick]
Transmission Loss 隆
Two factors
Energy spreading
K = 15
Wave absorption
留 is computed using Ainslie and McColm model
[Ainslie&McColm]
Temperature, frequency, depth, salinity, and acidity
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9. Underwater Communication
Absorption coefficient 留
Increases with frequency
Decreases with depth
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11. Results
Transmission loss of deep water at 10000 m depth
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12. Results
There exists a range of frequencies with longer
transmission distance, because of the reduction in
ambient noise
As depth increases, higher frequencies can be used
for larger transmission distance
High BER can tolerate larger frequencies and further
transmission distance
Higher power increases transmission range
BPSK and QPSK perform better than 16-QAM
Small bit/symbol is better in low data-rate networks
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13. Results
Maximum transmission range at different depths with Ptx= 100
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17. Simulation Setup
NS-3 simulator with UAN framework
Contributions to UAN framework
Added new propagation models
Added passive sonar equation to calculate SNR
Modified MAC AlOHA to work with UDP client and server
application
PER of 90% if received SNR SNRth
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19. Conclusions
Higher frequencies provide more channel capacity
but more susceptible to transmission loss
Optimal operating frequency is around 40 KHz in shallow
water, and 100 KHz in deep water
Low symbol modulation is more suitable for UWSN
BPSK and QPSK
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20. References
[Urick] R. Urick, Principles of underwater sound,
New York, 1983.
[Ainslie&McColm] M. Ainslie and J. McColm, A
simplified formula for viscous and chemical
absorption in sea water, Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, vol. 103, no. 3, pp. 1671
1672, 1998.
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#3: My presentation outline is as follows. I will start with the importance of UWSN applications and its challenges and limitations. Then will show some related work of underwater node placement. Then I will present the problem objective and formulation, followed by discussion about the observed results from the analytical and simultion experiments At the end I will conclude my presentation with some considered future work
#4: 70% of planet earth is covered by water.High percentage is still unexplored. No cheap and efficient way to conduct underwater operations. AUVs are helpful, but difficult to control in deep water.AUVs are used in scientific tasks like habitat monitoring, data samplingOne of greatest use of AUVs is the call of MBARI during the oil spill in Mexican Gulf 2010. It dove up to 1,500 m and collected water samples near the oil spill. It provided the researchers with better understanding of the effects on the surrounding enivrnoment
#5: The disadvantages of using AUVs underwater is that sampled data can be only retrieved when the AUV is back to surface. Some applications need real-time data monitoring and sampling. Another disadvantage is the limited storage. Offline configurationChallenges ExpensiveRequired high powerLimited hardware capability Difficult to deploy
#9: Transmission loss is caused by two phenomena: 1- energy spreading: as the wave propagates for longer distances it occupies larger surface area. as the surface area increases the energy per unit surface area becomes less and hence low received signal .. Geometric spreading are: spherical and cylidrical.. Modeled by k values of 1 and 2. 1.5 is the practical value2- waves absorptionis frequency dependent. High frequency signals are more vulnerable to loss because of energy transfer to energy. Transmission loss, mainly depends no the distance operating frequency, and absorption coefficient . Different models for absorption, the most basic depends only on the frequency. While a more complicated depends on the temperature, salinity, acidity and the depth.
#10: Ainslie and McColm model is and accurate model that consider temperature, salinity and acidity. G1 represent the abosrptoptin caused by the boric acid, g2 from the magnisuemsulphate. Default values for salinity and acidity is 35 and 8 Figure shows the effect of the frequency and depth
#11: Given spreading factor, operating frequency, depth, Rmax, volume and number of nodes, we can find out the optimal tranmission range that minimizes TLConstraints are it has to be within the hardware capability of the node operating frequency in the valid range for the absorption model V is greater than certain threshold to assure that rc is not going to zero
#12: Logarithmic behavior in the transmission loss. Rapidly increase with distance and frequency. Decreases as depth increase
#13: One observation worth to mention is the optimal frequency because of the noise model behavior. For deep water, frequencues around 100 KHz has less noise than any other and still hold TLth. For shallow is 40 KHz. We found the affect of changing power, BER values, modulation scheme and depth on the optimal frequency
#14: As depth increases, higher frequency can be used to maintain same TLth
#15: Increasing the power allow singals to propgate further with same frequencies
#16: Low BER values have more strict ranges and fs to maintain TLth
#18: We used NS3. Its a free available network simulator equipped with many models for all kinds of networks UAN framework is available, but buggy and has very limited functionalities. We modified the framework to better match with our assumptions. Changes: propogation modelPhy chars MAC protocol Sending UDP packets underwater
#19: Transmission ranges in the simulation approximatly matches the obtained ones from the mathematical model
#20: In the future, we are aiming to enhance the problem formulation to include channel capacity. In such that the solution provides the best distance and operating frequency to achieve network reliability and high throughput in terms of capacity and propagation delay