A Named-Data Networking Approach to Underwater Monitoring Systems
Meng Kuai, Tarif Haque, Xiaoyan Hong, Qiangyuan Yu · 2015
Scientists take interest in monitoring underwater ecosystems over time because it provides rich data on ecology, pollution, and climate change. We thus envision a searchable monitoring system building on top of the Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN) deployed to collect and deliver data from underwater sensors to globally distributed scientists as they request. In this extended abstract, we explore Named-Data Networking (NDN) as an approach to support data retrieval from this underwater acoustic network. Also, we present a comparative simulation study to investigate several issues relating to the feasibility and performance. These issues are raised due to a couple of choices available as popular research results in terms of how the network can be established.