Underwater Acoustic Networking Techniques

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 underwater applications. This report serves both as an introduction to the subject and as a summary of existing protocols, providing support and inspiration for the development of network architectures.

Topics bordering the physical layer. - Medium access control. - Logical link layer topics. - Routing. - Notes.