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Underwater Acoustic Networks (UAN)

Overview:

NetSim’s Underwater acoustic networks (UAN or sometimes termed UWAN) library enables users to design, simulate and analyze performance of underwater networks that use acoustic communication.

NNetSim UAN

Features

  • Architecture and interlinkage with other NetSim components
    • NetSim Component # 12 will be Underwater Acoustic Networks
    • It will be available only with standard and pro versions
    • It requires Component # 2 (Legacy Networks) to run
    • It can be interface with NetSim emulator add on
  • Graphical User interface
    • Two-Dimensional GUI for visualization (3-D views are not available)
    • The “Z axis (depth)” can be configured but cannot be visualized
  • Network Stack
    • Entire 5-layer network stack is modelled in each device
  • L5 - Application Layer
    • Sensor Application with small packet sizes and large interarrival times to mimic underwater applications
    • Other NetSim applications such as voice, video, FTP etc can be configured. User must keep in mind the very low bit rates available in UWANs
  • L4 – Transport layer
    • UDP protocol
  • L3 – Network layer
    • No routing configuration (user inputs) is required for single-hop transmissions
    • Static routing to be configured for multi-hop transmissions
    • Ad hoc (MANET) routing is currently unavailable and is planned for subsequent releases
    • Devices can only communicate within the UWAN. External connectivity (via a gateway) is planned for subsequent releases.
  • L2 – MAC layer
    • Slotted aloha protocol
    • TDMA/DTDMA is planned for subsequent releases
  • L1 – PHY Layer
    • Underwater Acoustic PHY Model. Propagation delay based on the speed of sound which is dependent on (user configurable) water temperature, depth and salinity
    • Modulation schemes: BPSK, QPSK, FSK, 16-QAM, 32-QAM, 64-QAM
    • User configurable Data rate and Bandwidth
    • SNR based packet reception. BER computed from SNR-BER curves after accounting for propagation losses
    • Thorp Propagation Model with user configurable parameters for Temperature, Depth and Salinity, Surface Wind speed, Turbulence and Shipping Noise
Parameter Values
Source Level 170-225 dB//1 𝜇𝑃a
Antenna Gain -1000 to 1000 dBi
Forward error correction coding Enabled
Modulation Technique QPSK, BPSK, FSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM
Coding Rates 1/2, 2/3,3/4,5/6
Frequency 0.01 to 1000kHz
Data Rate 0 to 255 kbps
Receiver Sensitivity -120 to 0 dBm
Bandwidth 0-1000 Hz
  • Mobility models can be configured for the underwater sensors: Random way point, Random Walk, File based etc.
  • Statistics
    • All summary statistics available in NetSim such as throughput, delay, error etc at link level and per application
    • Packet and Event trace
  • Source Codes
    • Protocol source C codes provided along with
    • Users can modify the underlying codes using MS Visual studio dev env
  • Socket based external interfacing to MATLAB
Results and Metrics NNetSim UAN Results

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