ZAREEI M.

Owing to the harsh and unpredictable behavior of the sea channel, network protocols that combat the undesirable and challenging properties of the channel are of critical significance. Protocols addressing such challenges exist in literature. However, these protocols consume an excessive amount of energy due to redundant packets transmission or...

In underwater acoustic networks (UANs), an acoustic modem is one of the key elements that governs underwater communications. The major demerit of the existing surveys conducted on acoustic modems is that such surveys do not comprise of the novel and state-of-the-art modems. In addition, the described characteristics do not specify the full...