Abstract—Terrestrial and airborne Wireless Sensor
Networks rely on radio frequencies as their communication
medium for transmitting data and information. However,
sensing and subsequent transmission in sub-sea environment
e.g. deep sea exploration requires all together a different
approach for communication that has to be done under water.
There’s no escaping the fact that a huge amount of unexploited
resources lies in the 70% of the earth covered by oceans. Yet,
the aquatic world has mainly been unaffected by the recent
advances in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and
their pervasive penetration in modern day research and
industrial development. The current pace of research in the
area of Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) is at a
snail’s pace due to the difficulties arising in transferring most of
the land and air based WSNs’ state-of-the-art to their
underwater equivalent. Maximum underwater deployments
rely on acoustics for enabling communication combined with
special sensors having the capacity to take on harsh
environment of the oceans. This paper particularly focuses on
gathering most recent developments and experimentation
related to key underwater sensor network applications and
UASNs deployments for monitoring and control of underwater
domains.
Index Terms—Acoustic communication, acoustic sensor
network, underwater sensor network, UASN.
Mohsin Murad was with the Department of Computer Systems
Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan
and is with the Department of Computer Engineering and Simplicity Labs,
Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (e-mail:
mmnkhan@uqu.edu.sa).
Adil A. Sheikh is with Science and Technology Unit and Simplicity Labs,
Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (e-mail: aasheikh
@uqu.edu.sa).
Muhammad Asif is with the Department of Computer Engineering and
Simplicity Labs, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (e-mail:
mamanzoor@uqu.edu.sa).
Emad Felemban is with the Department of Computer Engineering, Umm
Al Qura University and Simplicity Labs, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (e-mail:
eafelemban@uqu.edu.sa).
Saad Qaiser is with National University of Science and Technology,
Islamabad, Pakistan (e-mail: saad.qaisar@seecs.edu.pk).
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Cite:Mohsin Murad, Adil A. Sheikh, Muhammad Asif Manzoor, Emad Felemban, and Saad Qaisar, "A Survey on Current Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network Applications," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 51-56, 2015.
