Abstract
In underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks (UAWSNs), designing media access control (MAC) protocols is highly challenging because of their significant influence on network performance. It is a great challenge to design suitable MAC protocols for UAWSNs because of the specific characteristics of underwater acoustic channels, such as low communication rates, large propagation delays, and limited available bandwidth. Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) is a special case of OFDM-based multicarrier modulation in which multiple user symbols are transmitted simultaneously using different subcarriers with overlapping orthogonal frequency bands. In this paper, we propose an OFDMA-based subcarrier pregrouping MAC protocol for UAWSNs, termed OSPG-MAC. To make it easier to allocate subcarriers and avoid conflict, we group all the subcarriers into fixed subchannels in advance and allocate them in terms of these subchannels. To maximize the total throughput on each subchannel, a bit and power allocation algorithm for the protocol is proposed, termed the OSPG-MAC algorithm. Simulation results show that the performance of OSPG-MAC is better than that of classic underwater MAC protocols, including SFAMA and T-Lohi.
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