Abstract
An Evolutionary Approach to Underwater Sensor Deployment
Highlights
Underwater sensor networks are often used to monitor a general area of the ocean, a port or military installation, or to detect underwater vehicles near a high value unit at sea, such as a fuel ship or aircraft carrier
Range dependence denotes the non-negligible effect sensor location has on sensing and communications ranges. This is an artifact of the variability of sound speed and bathymetric phenomena, such as changes in depth over a region, which in turn varies the transmission loss of sound over distance [4]. Such variabilities suggest that an underwater sensor deployment strategy should utilize environmental data from historical databases, or in situ, to calculate realistic values for sensing and communications ranges throughout an area of interest
Two main contributions of this work, in addition to designing the Underwater Sensor Deployment Evolutionary Algorithm (USDEA), are 1) a standard benchmarking of the algorithm and 2) a study of the effect of Evolutionary Underwater Sensor Deployment communications range on the sensing capabilities of sensor fields using mesh and cluster topologies
Summary
Underwater sensor networks are often used to monitor a general area of the ocean, a port or military installation, or to detect underwater vehicles near a high value unit at sea, such as a fuel ship or aircraft carrier. This is an artifact of the variability of sound speed and bathymetric phenomena, such as changes in depth over a region, which in turn varies the transmission loss of sound over distance [4] Such variabilities suggest that an underwater sensor deployment strategy should utilize environmental data from historical databases, or in situ, to calculate realistic values for sensing and communications ranges throughout an area of interest. Two main contributions of this work, in addition to designing the USDEA, are 1) a standard benchmarking of the algorithm and 2) a study of the effect of Evolutionary Underwater Sensor Deployment communications range on the sensing capabilities of sensor fields using mesh and cluster topologies.
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