Recent Research and New Challenges in Underwater Communications and Wireless Sensor Networks
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 115
Special Issue Editors
Interests: underwater sensor networks; underwater protocols; underwater acoustic sensor networks
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2. Institute of Oceanic Engineering Research, University of Malaga, 29071 Malaga, Spain
Interests: underwater sensor networks; underwater acoustic communications; underwater protocols; underwater imaging
2. Institute of Oceanic Engineering Research, University of Malaga, 29071 Malaga, Spain
Interests: IOT; wireless protocols; underwater sensor network; model simulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to introduce a Special Issue on “Recent Research and New Challenges in Underwater Communications and Wireless Sensor Networks”.
Our lovely planet is asking for a change. There are many signs supporting this assertion: climate change, natural resource depletion, and plant and animal species extinction, among others. Additionally, there are many undiscovered species waiting to be studied that may offer potential new applications or uncover secrets in disparate fields such as medicine, genetics, or life conditions. There is a huge gap between our knowledge over the solid (e.g., geology) and liquid parts (oceans and seas, oceanography) of our planet, Earth. Currently, the interest in monitoring and developing ocean- and sea-related applications is very high, supported by a variety of funding programs around the world: the Copernicus Marine Service (European Union), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, USA), the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF, in Asia), etc. This growing interest is reflected in this Special Issue, focused on underwater sensor nodes and networks as the main actors in future monitoring efforts, discoveries, and/or applications in ocean/sea environments.
Authors are invited to submit reviews or completely original, unpublished papers, not under review in any other conference or journal, discussing the state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, new research proposals, and industrial case studies in this field
The research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Underwater communications—modems, protocols, and applications;
- Underwater acoustic (/wireless) sensor networks—topology, technology, and devices;
- Sensor networks for aquaculture, fish farming and monitoring;
- Security in underwater wireless networks;
- Autonomous underwater vehicles—packet routing and data collecting;
- Underwater positioning and location;
- Underwater surveillance and monitoring;
- Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT);
- Maritime infrastructures—control, monitoring, and robot operations;
- Marine energy harvesting—control/operation of generators and status monitoring;
- Databases and big data for underwater system control.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Miguel-Angel Luque-Nieto
Prof. Dr. Pablo Otero
Prof. Dr. Alfonso Ariza Quintana
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UWSNs
- wireless protocols
- IoUT
- AUVs
- underwater security
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